Katie Lloyd-Thomas (ed.)

Material Matters

Architecture and Material Practice
Herausgeber: Lloyd Thomas, Katie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the use of materials in architecture, considering their meaning, implications, influences and practical use, going beyond a simple technical view to discover the forces that shape 'the stuff of building'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 210mm x 175mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 560g
• ISBN-13: 9780415363266
• ISBN-10: 0415363268
• Artikelnr.: 24817630

Autorenporträt

Katie Lloyd Thomas

Inhaltsangabe

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