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• Students design breakfast spaces out of fabric

  Fabric Architecture | from the September 2010 issue
  The response to this challenge was as varied as the students who designed the spaces.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0910_sk_student_designs.html

• Visionaries inspire architecture students to design inflatable structures

  Fabric Architecture | from the May 2010 issue
  Architecture and Vision partners lead University of Minnesota students in a workshop on inflatable structures.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0510_sk_workshop.html

• The advantages of inflatable structures

  Fabric Architecture | October 26, 2009
  Flexible and economical, air-supported structures fill multiple market niches.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/rv1009_f1_inflatable.html

• Architects prepare for disaster

  Fabric Architecture | from the September 2009 issue
  New York architects Viraline have a plan for repopulating Manhattan — after the hurricane that hasn’t happened yet hits the NYC shoreline causing Katrina-like damage; it could happen.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0909_f1_disaster.html

• The UK’s blow-up structures experts

  Fabric Architecture | from the September 2009 issue
  British fabric structures manufacturer Tectoniks is all set to help—bring on the disasters.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0909_f2_blowup.html

• Project proposes air-filled fabric balloons as economical source of shade

  Fabric Architecture | from the May 2009 issue
  New York architects runner-up for MoMA’s seasonal P.S. 1 installation.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0509_nw1_balloons.html

• Inflatable structure showcases international rugby

  Fabric Architecture | from the May 2009 issue
  The project, which won an Award of Excellence in the air structures category of the 2008 International Achievement Awards, entailed the design and build of an inflatable structure in the shape of a rugby ball.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0509_iaa1_rugby.html

• Inflatable structure serves as portable venue for football tournament

  Fabric Architecture | from the May 2009 issue
  The project involved the design and construction of an inflatable structure to serve as a portable venue for the promotion of the Euro 2008 football tournament in Austria and Switzerland.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0509_iaa2_venue.html

• Film features color-changing properties

  Fabric Architecture | from the May 2009 issue
  ChroMyx™ from Chameleon Intl. is a complete line of flexible, waterproof, temperature-sensitive, color-changing films that can be fabricated into virtually any product.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0509_np2_film.html

• Venue hosts traveling exhibit of design studio’s projects

  Fabric Architecture | from the March 2009 issue
  The Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago is the first venue to host a traveling exhibition of selected projects by the design studio Architecture and Vision.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0309_nw5_exhibit.html

• Architects design world’s largest transportable venue

  Fabric Architecture | from the March 2009 issue
  The concept illustrates a moving experience.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0309_f1_transportable.html

• World’s largest mobile venue to tour

  Fabric Architecture | from the September 2008 issue
  Norwegian designers, Various Architects (VA) have designed the Mobile Performance Venue (MPV) for the Arts Alliance Productions performance “ID – Identity of the Soul”, which will tour worldwide in 2009.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0908_nw4_venue.html

• Conference presenters share experiences with fabric-formed architectural structures

  Fabric Architecture | from the September 2008 issue
  A conference on the use of fabric formwork for architectural structures drew interest from around the world.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0908_rp_conference.html

• Composites allow creation of custom materials

  Fabric Architecture | from the September 2008 issue
  Composites have mind-bending properties and endless applications.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0908_ma_composites.html

• Techno Textiles: Inner Space to Outer Space

  Fabric Architecture | from the July 2008 issue
  An exhibition that touches on many aspects of life, both terrestrial and extraterrestrial.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0708_rp_techno.html

• Portable building serves as airship terminal and promotional venue

  Fabric Architecture | from the July 2008 issue
  This project involved the design, manufacture and installation of a portable building to serve as an airship terminal and promotional venue at The Palm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0708_iaa1_portable.html

• Sphere provides unique event space

  Fabric Architecture | from the July 2008 issue
  This structure, which won an Outstanding Achievement Award in the air structures category of the 2007 International Achievement Awards, is a huge sphere supported on an aircell collar.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0708_iaa2_sphere.html

• Portable building goes on tour to publicize game console

  Fabric Architecture | from the July 2008 issue
  Tectoniks Ltd. | Shrewsbury, Shropshire, United Kingdom
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0708_iaa3_tour.html

• Tensile structures: Do it yourself

  Fabric Architecture | from the July 2008 issue
  At the Free University of Brussels, Dr. Marijke Mollaert’s architecture students design and then build their fabric structure.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0708_f3_tensile.html

• Networks of influence: Blurring the roles between engineers and architects

  Fabric Architecture | from the July 2008 issue
  A student of Otto explains how she teaches the basics.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0708_f2_networks.html

• Tension revisited: MPanel

  Fabric Architecture | from the July 2008 issue
  MPanel, one of the more useful, sophisticated and relatively new software systems, promises to deliver value for architects, engineers, designers, fabricators, educators, researchers and a host of other professionals.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0708_rv1_mpanel.html

• Euro Experience Tour infiltrates

  Fabric Architecture | from the May 2008 issue
  A traveling show for the UEFA Euro 2008 tournament began in late January in Basel, Switzerland when an innovative inflatable building opened to the public as the first of a 13-city tour through Austria and Switzerland.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0508_nw5_euro.html

• Inflatable ball showcases international rugby

  Fabric Architecture | from the March 2008 issue
  An inflatable rugby ball the size of a small building has inaugurated a tour of international rugby matches leading up to the World Cup in 2011, to be held in New Zealand.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0308_nw6_ball.html

• The sustainable future of fabric

  Fabric Architecture | from the January 2008 issue
  Fabric’s sustainable future may help lead design forward.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0108_f1_future.html

• Plastic bubbles wrap up energy waste in Melbourne

  Fabric Architecture | from the January 2008 issue
  Inflated plastic bubbles enclose a shopping mall in Melbourne, Australia, solving a host of problems, including energy waste.
  http://fabricarchitecturemag.com/articles/0108_f2_wrap.html