Material matters :
Material matters : architecture and material practice /
edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- 262 p. : ill., map ; 21 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Architecture and material practice / Katie Lloyd Thomas -- Plans to matter : towards a history of material possibility / Andrew Benjamin -- A Royal Gittern at the British Museum / Niall McLaughlin -- Gordon Matta-Clark : Matter, materiality, entropy, alchemy / Stephen Walker -- Plenums : re-thinking matter, geometry and subjectivity / Peg Rawes -- Marx matters, or, aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter / Jon Goodbun -- The thinking hand / Raoul Bunschoten -- Material imprecision / Elizabeth Shotton -- Pumping up : digital steroids and the design studio / Scott Poole -- A philosophy of engagement : developing a strategic ability through direct engagement with material, process and collective action / Alan Chandler -- Workshops -- Surface structures in the digital age : studies in ferrocement / Martin Bechthold -- Out of control : the media of architecture, cybernetics and design / Pablo Miranda Carranza -- The methodology of construction : The gentleman's tailor and the home sewer / Rachel Cruise -- Re-fabrications / Richard Wilson -- Between birds' nests and manor houses : Edwardian Cape Town and the political nature of building materials / Nicholas Coetzer -- Concrete as the conduit of experience at the Brunswick, London / Clare Melhuish -- Unpleasant matters / Helen Stratford -- Life matters making place / Doina Petrescu -- Material responsibility and the work of rural studio / Andrew Freear -- The new and the renewed / Susannah Hagan.
041536325X (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415363259 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415363268 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780415363266 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020301362X (ebook) 9780203013625 (ebook)
2006010010
Building materials.
Architecture.
NA2540 / .M385 2007
720/.28
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : Architecture and material practice / Katie Lloyd Thomas -- Plans to matter : towards a history of material possibility / Andrew Benjamin -- A Royal Gittern at the British Museum / Niall McLaughlin -- Gordon Matta-Clark : Matter, materiality, entropy, alchemy / Stephen Walker -- Plenums : re-thinking matter, geometry and subjectivity / Peg Rawes -- Marx matters, or, aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter / Jon Goodbun -- The thinking hand / Raoul Bunschoten -- Material imprecision / Elizabeth Shotton -- Pumping up : digital steroids and the design studio / Scott Poole -- A philosophy of engagement : developing a strategic ability through direct engagement with material, process and collective action / Alan Chandler -- Workshops -- Surface structures in the digital age : studies in ferrocement / Martin Bechthold -- Out of control : the media of architecture, cybernetics and design / Pablo Miranda Carranza -- The methodology of construction : The gentleman's tailor and the home sewer / Rachel Cruise -- Re-fabrications / Richard Wilson -- Between birds' nests and manor houses : Edwardian Cape Town and the political nature of building materials / Nicholas Coetzer -- Concrete as the conduit of experience at the Brunswick, London / Clare Melhuish -- Unpleasant matters / Helen Stratford -- Life matters making place / Doina Petrescu -- Material responsibility and the work of rural studio / Andrew Freear -- The new and the renewed / Susannah Hagan.
041536325X (hardback : alk. paper) 9780415363259 (hardback : alk. paper) 0415363268 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780415363266 (pbk. : alk. paper) 020301362X (ebook) 9780203013625 (ebook)
2006010010
Building materials.
Architecture.
NA2540 / .M385 2007
720/.28