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.
• Ch. 1. Introduction : architecture and material practice / Katie Lloyd Thomas -- ch. 2. Plans to matter : towards a history of material possibility / Andrew Benjamin -- ch. 3. A royal gittern at the British Museum / Niall McLaughlin -- ch. 4. Gordon Matta-Clark : matter, materiality, entropy, alchemy / Stephen Walker -- ch. 5. Plenums : re-thinking matter, geometry and subjectivity / Peg Rawes -- ch. 6. Marx matters, or, Aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter / Jon Goodbun -- ch. 7. The thinking hand / Raoul Bunschoten -- ch. 8. Material imprecision / Elizabeth Shotton -- ch. 9. Pumping up : digital steroids and the design studio / Scott Poole -- ch. 10. A philosophy of engagement : developing a strategic ability through direct engagement with material, process and collective action / Alan Chandler -- ch. 11. Workshops -- ch. 12. Surface structures in the digital age : studies in ferrocement / Martin Bechthold -- ch. 13. Out of control : the media of architecture, cybernetics and design / Pablo Miranda Carranza -- ch. 14. The methodology of construction : the gentleman's tailor and the home sewer / Rachel Cruise -- ch. 15. Re-fabrications / Richard Wilson -- ch. 16. Between birds' nests and manor houses : Edwardian Cape Town and the political nature of building materials / Nicholas Coetzer -- ch. 17. Concrete as the conduit of experience at the Brunswick, London / Clare Melhuish -- ch. 18. Unpleasant matters / Helen Stratford -- ch. 19. Life matters making place / Doina Petrescu -- ch. 20. Material responsibility and the work of rural studio / Andrew Freear -- ch. 21. The new and the renewed / Susannah Hagan.

Identifiers

• Isbns: 020301362X; 9780203013625; 020301362X; 9786610714667; 6610714665
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)252856664

Publication Statement

• Place: New York, NY
• Publisher: Routledge
• Date: 2006

Physical Description

• Extent: 1 online resource

Table Of Contents

• Ch. 1. Introduction : architecture and material practice / Katie Lloyd Thomas -- ch. 2. Plans to matter : towards a history of material possibility / Andrew Benjamin -- ch. 3. A royal gittern at the British Museum / Niall McLaughlin -- ch. 4. Gordon Matta-Clark : matter, materiality, entropy, alchemy / Stephen Walker -- ch. 5. Plenums : re-thinking matter, geometry and subjectivity / Peg Rawes -- ch. 6. Marx matters, or, Aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter / Jon Goodbun -- ch. 7. The thinking hand / Raoul Bunschoten -- ch. 8. Material imprecision / Elizabeth Shotton -- ch. 9. Pumping up : digital steroids and the design studio / Scott Poole -- ch. 10. A philosophy of engagement : developing a strategic ability through direct engagement with material, process and collective action / Alan Chandler -- ch. 11. Workshops -- ch. 12. Surface structures in the digital age : studies in ferrocement / Martin Bechthold -- ch. 13. Out of control : the media of architecture, cybernetics and design / Pablo Miranda Carranza -- ch. 14. The methodology of construction : the gentleman's tailor and the home sewer / Rachel Cruise -- ch. 15. Re-fabrications / Richard Wilson -- ch. 16. Between birds' nests and manor houses : Edwardian Cape Town and the political nature of building materials / Nicholas Coetzer -- ch. 17. Concrete as the conduit of experience at the Brunswick, London / Clare Melhuish -- ch. 18. Unpleasant matters / Helen Stratford -- ch. 19. Life matters making place / Doina Petrescu -- ch. 20. Material responsibility and the work of rural studio / Andrew Freear -- ch. 21. The new and the renewed / Susannah Hagan.

Summary

• Bringing together texts and work by theorists and practitioners who are making material central to their work, this book reflects the diverse areas of inquiry which are expanding current material discourse. Focusing on the cultural, political, economic, technological and intellectual forces which shape material practices in architecture, the contributors draw on disciplines ranging from philosophy, history and pedagogy to art practice and digital and low-tech fabrication. By paying critical attention to material, a wide range of issues emerge which are otherwise excluded from archite.

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