Material Matters : Architecture and Material Practice

Summary

Titles

• Full Title: Material Matters : Architecture and Material Practice

Notes

• Katie Lloyd Thomas Introduction: Architecture and material practice Andrew Benjamin Plans to Matter: Towards a History of Material Possibility Niall McLaughlin A Royal Gittern from the British Museum Stephen Walker Gordon Matta-Clark: Matter, Materiality, Entropy, Alchemy Peg Rawes Plenums: Re-thinking matter, geometry and subjectivity Jon Goodbun Marx Matters or Aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter Raoul Bunschoten The Thinkin Hand Elizabeth Shotton Material Imprecision Scott Poole Pumping Up: Digital Steroids and the Design Studio Alan Chandler A Philosophy of Engagement: Developing a strategic ability through direct, process and collective action Workshops Martin Bechthold Surface Structures in the Digital Age: Studies in Ferrocement Pablo Miranda Carranza Out of control: The media of architecture, cybernetics and design Rachel Cruise The Methodology of Construction: The Gentleman's tailor and the home sewer Re-fabrications Nicholas Coetzer Between Birds' Nests and Manor Houses: Edwardian Cape Town and the political nature of building materials Clare Melhuish Concrete as Conduit of Experience at the Brunswick Centre, London Helen Stratford Unpleasant Matters Doina Petrescu Life Matters: Making place Andrew Freear Material Responsibility and the work of Rural Studio Susannah Hagan The New and the Renewed

Identifiers

• Isbns: 041536325X; 0415363268; 020301362X; 9780415363259; 9780415363266; 9780203013625
• Oclc Number: (OCoLC)473754517

Publication Statement

• Place: London
• Publisher: Routledge
• Date: 2007

Physical Description

• Extent: 262 p.

Summary

• Focusing on the cultural, political, economic, technological and intellectual forces which shape material practices in architecture, this work includes contributions that draw on disciplines ranging from philosophy, history and pedagogy to art practice and digital and low-tech fabrication.

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