Material matters : architecture and material practice

Summary

Titles

• Full Title: Material matters : architecture and material practice/ edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas.

Notes

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction : Architecture and material practice / Katie Lloyd Thomas -- Plans to matter : towards a history of material possibility / Andrew Benjamin -- A Royal Gittern at the British Museum / Niall McLaughlin -- Gordon Matta-Clark : Matter, materiality, entropy, alchemy / Stephen Walker -- Plenums : re-thinking matter, geometry and subjectivity / Peg Rawes -- Marx matters, or, aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter / Jon Goodbun -- The thinking hand / Raoul Bunschoten -- Material imprecision / Elizabeth Shotton -- Pumping up : digital steroids and the design studio / Scott Poole -- A philosophy of engagement : developing a strategic ability through direct engagement with material, process and collective action / Alan Chandler -- Workshops -- Surface structures in the digital age : studies in ferrocement / Martin Bechthold -- Out of control : the media of architecture, cybernetics and design / Pablo Miranda Carranza -- The methodology of construction : The gentleman's tailor and the home sewer / Rachel Cruise -- Re-fabrications / Richard Wilson -- Between birds' nests and manor houses : Edwardian Cape Town and the political nature of building materials / Nicholas Coetzer -- Concrete as the conduit of experience at the Brunswick, London / Clare Melhuish -- Unpleasant matters / Helen Stratford -- Life matters making place / Doina Petrescu -- Material responsibility and the work of rural studio / Andrew Freear -- The new and the renewed / Susannah Hagan.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 041536325X; 9780415363259; 0415363268; 9780415363266; 020301362X; 9780203013625
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)65341027

Publication Statement

• Place: London ; New York
• Publisher: Routledge
• Date: 2007

Physical Description

• Extent: 262 pages :
• Dimensions: 21 cm
• Illustrations: illustrations, map ;

Table Of Contents

• Introduction : Architecture and material practice / Katie Lloyd Thomas -- Plans to matter : towards a history of material possibility / Andrew Benjamin -- A Royal Gittern at the British Museum / Niall McLaughlin -- Gordon Matta-Clark : Matter, materiality, entropy, alchemy / Stephen Walker -- Plenums : re-thinking matter, geometry and subjectivity / Peg Rawes -- Marx matters, or, aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter / Jon Goodbun -- The thinking hand / Raoul Bunschoten -- Material imprecision / Elizabeth Shotton -- Pumping up : digital steroids and the design studio / Scott Poole -- A philosophy of engagement : developing a strategic ability through direct engagement with material, process and collective action / Alan Chandler -- Workshops -- Surface structures in the digital age : studies in ferrocement / Martin Bechthold -- Out of control : the media of architecture, cybernetics and design / Pablo Miranda Carranza -- The methodology of construction : The gentleman's tailor and the home sewer / Rachel Cruise -- Re-fabrications / Richard Wilson -- Between birds' nests and manor houses : Edwardian Cape Town and the political nature of building materials / Nicholas Coetzer -- Concrete as the conduit of experience at the Brunswick, London / Clare Melhuish -- Unpleasant matters / Helen Stratford -- Life matters making place / Doina Petrescu -- Material responsibility and the work of rural studio / Andrew Freear -- The new and the renewed / Susannah Hagan.

Summary

• With perspectives gained from history, philosophy and design, this work examines the forces that have shaped material practices in architecture. Going beyond a technical analysis, these essays consider building materials as an expression of a variety of influences on their use, fabrication and meaning. By paying critical attention to material, a wide range of issues emerge in this book which are otherwise excluded from architectural discourse - issues that shape and determine the buildings we make, the processes we use and the ways we understand them.

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