The Patterns of Architecture

This issue of Architectural Design explores the creation, materialisation and theorisation of some of the worldrs"s most significant and spectacularly patterned spaces. It assesses how and why the use of patterns as new critical, experimental, sustainable and active forms of spatial and organisational systems are shaping the futures and developments of architecture.

Mark Garcia is the Research Co-ordinator and an MPhil/PhD Supervisor in the Department of Architecture at the Royal College of Art (RCA). He has worked for Branson Coates Architecture and has held academic research posts at St Antony’s College (Oxford University) and the Department of Industrial Design Engineering (Royal College of Art) as well as lecturing in universities across Japan, Switzerland and the UK. He was guest-editor of AD Architextiles (Vol 76, No 6, Nov/Dec 2006) and is editor of The Diagrams of Architecture (John Wiley & Sons, January 2010).