Material and Detail in Industrial Design

Genco Berkin’s new book, Materials and Details in Industrial Design, prepared for designers and practitioners new to the profession, especially industrial design and interior architecture students, has been published by YEM Yayın.

Materials and Details in Industrial Design, prepared for industrial design, interior architecture, and architecture students, as well as product designers and practitioners new to the profession, brings together 40 different product designs, design approaches, characteristics and processing of raw materials, issues designers should consider in material selection, and detail analyses for industrial product design, presented with original drawings.

Despite the thousands, even millions, of products that can fall under industrial design, to open a thoughtful window for designers new to the profession, the topics are covered under the sections EVERYDAY ITEMS, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, SPORTS EQUIPMENT, VEHICLES, DEFENSE INDUSTRY, and ADDITIONS; ranging from forks, spoons, and knives to jewelry, shoes to thermoses, chandeliers to irons, bicycles to tennis rackets, Audis to Harley-Davidsons, airplane seats to UAVs, thus covering a very broad perspective. 

Prof.Dr. Genco Berkin summarizes the rationale and content of the book as follows: “This book has been written for Industrial Design Department students and recent graduates. Although the topics covered in the book belong to a specific sector, due to the common areas of contemporary professions in both production and consumption, the content of the book partly concerns interior architects and even, to a considerable extent, architects. Historically, the professional fields of architecture, interior architecture, and industrial design have never been as close as they are today. The primary factor enabling this is standardization in production. All the tools and equipment mentioned in the "Household Items" section, which is one of the chapters in this book, are actually systems that can be integrated into buildings. Moreover, for thousands of years, there has been a transfer of knowledge from the industrial sector to architecture... The book consists of five main sections; each section contains eight current topics. In some topics, you will see that products traditionally made have also been manufactured using modern materials and production techniques as alternatives... This work serves as a guide for today's design world and also acts as a kind of record book bequeathed to the future. I believe that the book will be a fundamental resource for industrial design students in reinforcing their professional knowledge.”
Prof.Dr. Önder Küçükerman says the following in the Foreword of the book: “With this book, in which it is pointed out that ‘every product originates from a very special design culture and has separate application areas,’ Genco Berkin reveals that very interesting and realistic design lessons are hidden behind all the products around us, telling designers to act in accordance with these realities and to approach problems from the material-detail axis; he states that for industrial design, planning and production processes ‘should be resolved not only with general rules, but by delving into the root of multifaceted real problems’...”

In Materials and Details in Industrial Design, all data (such as ergonomics, materials, functionality, chemical knowledge, etc. necessary for designing a product) is presented in a simple and easily understandable manner through carefully prepared drawings, with the aim of providing young designers, in particular, with complete equipment to support the product design process from a detail and material perspective.

The book, along with Architecture in Materials and Details and Interior Architecture in Materials and Details, Furniture Design in Materials and Details, Stainless Steel and Glass in Interior Architecture (co-authored with Gökhan Mermi), all previously prepared by Genco Berkin and considered fundamental reference sources, forms YEM Yayın’s “Material and Detail Series.”

WHO IS GENCO BERKIN?
Born in Niğde in 1971, Genco Berkin completed his secondary education at Kadıköy Anatolian High School in 1990. Genco Berkin, who studied architecture at Brighton (England) and European University of Lefke (TRNC), started his academic career as a research assistant in 1995 upon an offer from the university he graduated from. 
In 1998, he completed his master's degree at Eastern Mediterranean University with his thesis “Architectural Utopias” in the field of Architectural History. In 2006, he earned his doctorate (Ph.D.) with his studies at the Building Physics and Materials Department of Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Faculty of Architecture; in 2015, he became an associate professor; and in 2020, he became a professor at Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University, Faculty of Architecture and Design. 
Genco Berkin, who teaches architecture and interior architecture at various universities, has conducted research and development studies on “ecological glass in architecture” and developed ideas on “improving project-design courses.” Berkin, especially considering combining ergonomics and technology in furniture designs, has also produced many works in this field. 
Prof.Dr. Genco Berkin is currently a faculty member at Istanbul Nişantaşı University, Faculty of Art and Design.
Genco Berkin's books published by YEM Yayın:
• Materials and Details in Architecture
• Materials and Details in Interior Architecture
• Materials and Details in Furniture Design
• Stainless Steel and Glass in Interior Architecture (co-authored with Gökhan Mermi)
• In the Footsteps of Wood: A Glossary of Forest Products in Design
• Modulor and Le Corbusier’s Cabin
• Module and Architecture from Square to Plan (co-authored with Yusuf Civelek)
• Materials and Details in Industrial Design