Material Matters : Materiality in Contemporary Architectural
by Thomas, Katie LloydPub. Date: 2006-12-22
Publisher(s): Taylor & Francis
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Summary
This book examines the use of materials in architecture, considering their meaning, implications, influences and practical use, going beyond a simple technical view to discover the forces that shape 'the stuff of building'.
Table of Contents
| Introduction: Architecture and Material Practice | |
| Plans to Matter: Towards a History of Material Possibility | |
| A Royal Gittern at the British Museum | |
| Plenums: Re-Thinking Matter, Geometry and Subjectivity | |
| Gordon Matta-Clark: Matter, Materiality, Entropy, Alchemy | |
| Marx Matters or Aesthetics, Technology, and the Spirit of Matter | |
| The Thinking Hand | |
| Material Imprecision | |
| Pumping Up: Digital Steroids and the Design Studio | |
| A Philosophy of Engagement: Material, Process and Collective Action | |
| Material Matters Workshop: A Photographic Essay | |
| Surface Structures in the Digital Age: Studies in Ferrocement | |
| Out of Control: Architecture's Media, Cybernetics and Design | |
| The Methodology of Construction: The Gentleman's Tailor and the Home Sewer | |
| Re-Fabrications | |
| Between Birds' Nests and Manor Houses: Edwardian Cape Town and the Political Nature of Building Materials | |
| Concrete as Conduit of Experience at the Brunswick, London | |
| Unpleasant Matters | |
| Material Responsibility and the Work of Rural Studio | |
| Life Matters Making Place | |
| The New and the Renewed | |
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