Material matters : architecture and material practice

Summary

Titles

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

Notes

• Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 11 juillet 2008). CaQQUQ
• Comprend des références bibliographiques et un 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: 9780203013625; 020301362X; 9786610714667; 6610714665
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)300364867

Publication Statement

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

Physical Description

• Extent: 1 ressource en ligne

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.

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