1st Edition
Assembly Matter, Lineament, and Aggregated Systems in Architectural Production
Introduction: Assembly: The Third State
Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith
Interviews
Kevin Daley
Part 1: Latent and Overt Geometry
1. Elementals, Components, and Tectonics
Gail Peter Borden
2. Duchamp’s Shotgun House by First Office
Andrew Atwood and Anna Neimark
3. Ways to Build and Assemble the Galería AAF
César Guerrero and Ana Cecilia Garza
4. Slippery Units
Troy Schaum
Part 2: Material Module and Processes
5. There Is Room: Working with Embedded Tectonics in Standard Residential Constructions in Chicago with a Case Study on Ardmore House
Lap Chi Kwong and Alison Von Glinow
6. A Permeable Curtain Wall
Adamo-Faiden
7. Assembling Shelter and Space in an Unforgiving Landscape: The Four Roof House in Montana
T.W. Ryan
Part 3: Part to Part: Elements, Joinery, Connection, Assembly, and Detail
8. The Value of Diminishing Returns
Blair Satterfield and Marc Swackhammer
9. Material Pathways: House of Cores
Leslie Lok and Sasa Zivkovic
10. Out of Context: Three Particular Alterations
Carrie Norman and Thomas Kelley
Part 4: Material + Assembly to Precedent
11. An Assembly of Passersby
Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo from LANZA
12. Convivial Ground
Constructlab
13. Mesocosms: Medium Worlds, Worlding Mediums
Daniel Jacobs and Brittany Utting
14. Assembly: Construction, Empathy, and the Light-Framed Box
Andrew Holder and Claus Benjamin Freyinger
Part 5: Digital and Environmental Assemblies, Media, and Making
15. From Megaliths to Machines: A Journey Through Time and Assembly
Brandon Clifford
16. Serial Killer: The Biological Paradigm in Architectural Production
Marshall Prado
17. Assembly: Material, Representation, and Aggregated Systems in Architectural Production: Sorry Mr. Morris
Rafael Beneytez-Duran and Ophelia Mantz
18. Transspecies Architecture: More-Than-Human, Transscalar, and Transsmaterial Design
Andres Jaque
Biography
Gail Peter Borden is the Director of Graduate Programs in addition to holding a tenured position as a professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design at the University of Houston. As a principal of Borden Partnership since 2002, his design work has won numerous recognitions, including the Architectural League Prize; the AIA Young Architect Award; Building Design and Construction magazine’s "40 Under 40" award; and numerous AIA, ACSA, and RADA awards. Borden received artist-in-residence awards from the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas; the Atlantic Center for the Arts; the Borchard Fellowship; and the MacDowell Colony. He was named the youngest fellow of the AIA in the history of California. As an architect designer, artist, theoretician, and practitioner, Professor Borden’s research and practice focus on the role of materiality and architecture in contemporary culture.
Michael Meredith is an architect, cofounder of MOS, and professor of architecture at Princeton University School of Architecture. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Log, Perspecta, Praxis, Domus, and Harvard Design Magazine. Together with his partner Hilary Sample, Meredith is the recipient of the Arnold W. Brunner/Katherine Edwards Gordon Rome Prize Fellows in Architecture (2023); the United States Artists Award in Architecture (2020); the Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt Design Museum National Design Award in Architecture (2015); the Global Holcim Award in Sustainable Architecture (2015); the American Academy of Arts and Letters Architecture Award; and the New York Architectural League Emerging Voices (2010).
