Soft Shells is a follow-up title to Sophia Vyzoviti's bestselling books, Folding Architecture and Supersurfaces. Where Folding Architecture explored folding as a design method in architecture, and Supersurfaces showed experiments in a fusion design field between product design, fashion and architecture, the new Soft Shells investigates textile as a retro-novel architectural device which is porous and deployable. The book is lavishly illustrated with form experiments and has three essays that provide the reader with a state-of-the-art context for the architectural discourse on formgenerative surface.
Sophia Vysivoti is an architect and has taught Design Method at the Architectural Faculty of the TU in Delft, the Netherlands. She is now Adjunct Lecturer at University of Thessaly, Greece