1st Edition

Material Matters Architecture and Material Practice

Edited By Katie Lloyd Thomas Copyright 2007
272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Architecture and Material Practice Katie Lloyd Thomas.  Plans to Matter: Towards a History of Material Possibility Andrew Benjamin.  A Royal Gittern from the British Museum Niall McLaughlin.  Plenums: Re-Thinking Matter, Geometry and Subjectivity Peg Rawes.  Gordon Matta-Clark: Matter, Materiality, Entropy, Alchemy Stephen Walker.  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: Material, Process and Collective Action Alan Chandler.  Material Matters Workshop: A Photographic Essay.  Surface Structures in the Digital Age: Studies in Ferrocement Martin Bechthold.  Out of Control: Architecture's Media, 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 Conduit of Experience at the Brunswick, London Clare Melhuish.  Unpleasant Matters Helen Stratford.  Material Responsibility and the Work of Rural Studio Andrew Freear.  Life Matters Making Place Doina Petrescu.  The New and the Renewed Susannah Hagan

Biography

Katie Lloyd Thomas