Material Matters Architecture and Material Practice

Name: Material Matters Architecture and Material Practice
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ISBN: 9780203013625

ISBN-10: 020301362X

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List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Publication date: 12/5/2006
Pages: 272
Language: English



Introduction: Architecture and Material Practice


Plans to Matter: Towards a History of Material Possibility


A Royal Gittern at the British Museum


Plenums: Re-Thinking Matter, Geometry and Subjectivity


Gordon Matta-Clark: Matter, Materiality, Entropy, Alchemy


Marx Matters or Aesthetics, Technology, and the Spirit of Matter


The Thinking Hand


Material Imprecision


Pumping Up: Digital Steroids and the Design Studio


A Philosophy of Engagement: Material, Process and Collective Action


Material Matters Workshop: A Photographic Essay


Surface Structures in the Digital Age: Studies in Ferrocement


Out of Control: Architecture's Media, Cybernetics and Design


The Methodology of Construction: The Gentleman's Tailor and the Home Sewer


Re-Fabrications


Between Birds' Nests and Manor Houses: Edwardian Cape Town and the Political Nature of Building Materials


Concrete as Conduit of Experience at the Brunswick, London


Unpleasant Matters


Material Responsibility and the Work of Rural Studio


Life Matters Making Place


The New and the Renewed