Material Matters: Architecture and Material

With perspectives gained from a range of disciplines including history, philosophy and design, this book examines the cultural, political, economic, technological and intellectual forces which have shaped material practices in architecture. Going beyond a merely technical analysis, these essays consider building materials as an expression of a variety of influences on their use, fabrication and meaning.Drawing on ideas presented at an international event which took place in spring 2004 at the University of East London, this illustrated volume highlights the evolution of materials discourse through practice and theory.

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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