Material Matters : Materiality in Contemporary Architectural

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Pub. 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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