ABSTRACT
The article discusses the use of the pleated shape by Architecture. It focuses on the contribution, impact, and of the physical properties of textile polymers, in contemporary architecture, and on the implications of their use in the development of a new methodology in architectural design. The connection between idea and material become the key to the art of creating new architectural languages, with their own specific tectonics, that imply a project methodology able to deal with both aspects – idea and material. Textile allows a formal speculation without major impacts on the existing structural system that permits a persistent refurbishment of facade, linking the building to the world of advertising and communication marketing, this material turn possible the reinvention of the facade as occurs in the clothing cluster-fashion.
