Material matters : architecture and material practice / edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas.
Material type: TextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2007Description: 262 p. : ill., map ; 21 cmISBN: 041536325X (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415363259 (hardback : alk. paper); 0415363268 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780415363266 (pbk. : alk. paper); 020301362X (ebook); 9780203013625 (ebook)Subject(s): Building materials | ArchitectureDDC classification: 720/.28 LOC classification: NA2540 | .M385 2007Online resources: Table of contents only | Publisher descriptionItem type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Hard Covered Materials | MACHAKOS UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Technical section | NA2540 .M385 2007 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 27974 |
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NA2515 .P253 1965 The four books of architecture / | NA2515 .S513 1982 The five books of architecture : | NA2540 .G63 2009 Why architecture matters / | NA2540 .M385 2007 Material matters : | NA2540 .T55 2009 Architecture depends / | NA2540 .V56 2008 I am a monument : | NA2540.5 .R87 2002 Site planning and design handbook / |
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.
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