Material Matters: Architecture and Material Practice

by Katie Lloyd Thomas (Editor)

Overview

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 philosophy, history and pedagogy to art practice and digital and low-tech fabrication.

By paying critical attention to material, a wide range of issues emerge 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.

Beautifully illustrated and designed, this book is a unique collection which will be of great interest to architectural practitioners and theorists who want to consider the wider implications of material practice, and to students who are developing their own approach to making buildings.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134228232
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/05/2006
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	85 MB
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About the Author

Katie Lloyd Thomas

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction, Katie Lloyd Thomas; Chapter 2 Plans To Matter, Andrew Benjamin; Chapter 3 A Royal Gittern at the British Museum, Niall Mclaughlin; Chapter 4 Gordon Matta-Clark, Stephen Walker; Chapter 5 Plenums, Peg Rawes; Chapter 6 Marx Matters, or, Jon Goodbun; Chapter 7 The Thinking Hand, Raoul Bunschoten; Chapter 8 Material Imprecision, Elizabeth Shotton; Chapter 9 Pumping Up, Scott Poole; Chapter 10 A Philosophy of Engagement, Alan Chandler; Chapter 11 Workshops; Chapter 12 Surface Structures in the Digital Age, Martin Bechthold; Chapter 13 Out of Control, Pablo Miranda Carranza; Chapter 14 The Methodology of Construction, Rachel Cruise; Chapter 15 Re-Fabrications, Richard Wilson; Chapter 16 Between Birds’ Nests and Manor Houses, Nicholas Coetzer; Chapter 17 Concrete as the Conduit of Experience at the Brunswick, London, Clare Melhuish; Chapter 18 Unpleasant Matters, Helen Stratford; Chapter 19 Life Matters Making Place, Doina Petrescu; Chapter 20 Material Responsibility and the Work of Rural Studio, Andrew Freear; Chapter 21 The New and the Renewed, Susannah Hagan;