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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.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• Introduction: Architecture and material practice
• Plans to Matter: Towards a History of Material Possibility
• A Royal Gittern from the British Museum
• Gordon Matta-Clark: Matter, Materiality, Entropy, Alchemy
• Plenums: Re-thinking matter, geometry and subjectivity
• 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: Developing a strategic ability through direct, process and collective action
• Workshops
• Surface Structures in the Digital Age: Studies in Ferrocement
• Out of control: The media of architecture, 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 Centre, London
• Unpleasant Matters
• Life Matters: Making place
• Material Responsibility and the work of Rural Studio
• The New and the Renewed

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