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).

• Editorial (Helen Castle). Introduction.Prologue for a History, Theory and Future of Patterns of Architecture and Spatial Design (Mark Garcia).Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations (Alejandro Zaera-Polo).Parametric Patterns (Patrik Schumacher).Relentless Patterns: The Immersive Interior (Mark Taylor).New Patterns in Urban Design (Brian McGrath and Victoria Marshall).Tracing Change: Patterns in Landscape Architecture (Simon Swaffield).Geometry and New and Future Spatial Patterns (Helmut Pottmann).Reductive Engineering Patterns: An Interview with Hanif Kara (Mark Garcia).Biomimetic Patterns in Architectural Design (Julian Vincent).Evolving Patterns: Correlated Systems of Interaction (Theodore Spyropoulos).Patterns in Performance-Oriented Design: An Approach towards Pattern Recognition, Generation and Instrumentalisation (Michael Hensel and Achim Menges).Pattern Deposition: From Scripts to Applications (Mike Silver).Psychology and Perception of Patterns in Architecture (Patricia A Rodemann).Practice Profile.SAI Consultants (Brian McGrath).Interior Eye.Hopkins Architects' Kroon Hall, Yale University (Jayne Merkel).Building Profile.Norfolk Park Green Homes, Sheffield (David Littlefield).Unit Factor.Head Banging: Engineered Neutrality + the Parametric Ceiling (Francesca Hughes).Spiller's Bits.Basking in a World of Your Own Making (Neil Spiller).Yeang's Eco-Files.Designing for Disassembly (DfD) (Elma Durmisevic and Ken Yeang).Underscape.Futuristic Retail Spaces (Valentina Croci).McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

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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).

• Editorial (Helen Castle). Introduction.Prologue for a History, Theory and Future of Patterns of Architecture and Spatial Design (Mark Garcia).Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations (Alejandro Zaera-Polo).Parametric Patterns (Patrik Schumacher).Relentless Patterns: The Immersive Interior (Mark Taylor).New Patterns in Urban Design (Brian McGrath and Victoria Marshall).Tracing Change: Patterns in Landscape Architecture (Simon Swaffield).Geometry and New and Future Spatial Patterns (Helmut Pottmann).Reductive Engineering Patterns: An Interview with Hanif Kara (Mark Garcia).Biomimetic Patterns in Architectural Design (Julian Vincent).Evolving Patterns: Correlated Systems of Interaction (Theodore Spyropoulos).Patterns in Performance-Oriented Design: An Approach towards Pattern Recognition, Generation and Instrumentalisation (Michael Hensel and Achim Menges).Pattern Deposition: From Scripts to Applications (Mike Silver).Psychology and Perception of Patterns in Architecture (Patricia A Rodemann).Practice Profile.SAI Consultants (Brian McGrath).Interior Eye.Hopkins Architects' Kroon Hall, Yale University (Jayne Merkel).Building Profile.Norfolk Park Green Homes, Sheffield (David Littlefield).Unit Factor.Head Banging: Engineered Neutrality + the Parametric Ceiling (Francesca Hughes).Spiller's Bits.Basking in a World of Your Own Making (Neil Spiller).Yeang's Eco-Files.Designing for Disassembly (DfD) (Elma Durmisevic and Ken Yeang).Underscape.Futuristic Retail Spaces (Valentina Croci).McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

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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).

• Editorial (Helen Castle). Introduction.Prologue for a History, Theory and Future of Patterns of Architecture and Spatial Design (Mark Garcia).Patterns, Fabrics, Prototypes, Tessellations (Alejandro Zaera-Polo).Parametric Patterns (Patrik Schumacher).Relentless Patterns: The Immersive Interior (Mark Taylor).New Patterns in Urban Design (Brian McGrath and Victoria Marshall).Tracing Change: Patterns in Landscape Architecture (Simon Swaffield).Geometry and New and Future Spatial Patterns (Helmut Pottmann).Reductive Engineering Patterns: An Interview with Hanif Kara (Mark Garcia).Biomimetic Patterns in Architectural Design (Julian Vincent).Evolving Patterns: Correlated Systems of Interaction (Theodore Spyropoulos).Patterns in Performance-Oriented Design: An Approach towards Pattern Recognition, Generation and Instrumentalisation (Michael Hensel and Achim Menges).Pattern Deposition: From Scripts to Applications (Mike Silver).Psychology and Perception of Patterns in Architecture (Patricia A Rodemann).Practice Profile.SAI Consultants (Brian McGrath).Interior Eye.Hopkins Architects' Kroon Hall, Yale University (Jayne Merkel).Building Profile.Norfolk Park Green Homes, Sheffield (David Littlefield).Unit Factor.Head Banging: Engineered Neutrality + the Parametric Ceiling (Francesca Hughes).Spiller's Bits.Basking in a World of Your Own Making (Neil Spiller).Yeang's Eco-Files.Designing for Disassembly (DfD) (Elma Durmisevic and Ken Yeang).Underscape.Futuristic Retail Spaces (Valentina Croci).McLean's Nuggets (Will McLean).

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