Material matters : architecture and material practice/ edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas

Contributor(s):

Thomas, Katie Lloyd [ed.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2007. London :Description: 262pISBN:

9780415363266

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

720.28 MAT

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: With perspectives gained from history, philosophy and design, this work examines the forces that have shaped material practices in architecture. Going beyond a technical analysis, these essays consider building materials as an expression of a variety of influences on their use, fabrication and meaning. By paying critical attention to material, a wide range of issues emerge in this book which are otherwise excluded from architectural discourse - issues that shape and determine the buildings we make, the processes we use and the ways we understand them

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Library, SPAB I-2	Non Fiction	720.28 MAT (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		000732

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With perspectives gained from history, philosophy and design, this work examines the forces that have shaped material practices in architecture. Going beyond a technical analysis, these essays consider building materials as an expression of a variety of influences on their use, fabrication and meaning. By paying critical attention to material, a wide range of issues emerge in this book which are otherwise excluded from architectural discourse - issues that shape and determine the buildings we make, the processes we use and the ways we understand them

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