Material matters
Subtitle: architecture and material practice
By: edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas.
Contributors: Thomas, Katie Lloyd.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9780415363259; 9780415363266; 9780203013625
Subjects: Building materials; Architecture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Architecture and material practice / Katie Lloyd Thomas; title: Plans to matter : towards a history of material possibility / Andrew Benjamin; title: A Royal Gittern at the British Museum / Niall McLaughlin; title: Gordon Matta-Clark : Matter, materiality, entropy, alchemy / Stephen Walker; title: Plenums : re-thinking matter, geometry and subjectivity / Peg Rawes; title: Marx matters, or, aesthetics, technology, and the spirit of matter / Jon Goodbun; title: The thinking hand / Raoul Bunschoten; title: Material imprecision /   Elizabeth Shotton; title: Pumping up : digital steroids and the design studio / Scott Poole; title: A philosophy of engagement : developing a strategic ability through direct engagement with material, process and collective action / Alan Chandler; title: Workshops; title: Surface structures in the digital age : studies in ferrocement / Martin Bechthold; title: Out of control : the media of architecture, cybernetics and design / Pablo Miranda Carranza; title: The methodology of construction : The gentleman's tailor and the home sewer / Rachel Cruise; title: Re-fabrications / Richard Wilson; title: Between birds' nests and manor houses : Edwardian Cape Town and the political nature of building materials / Nicholas Coetzer; title: Concrete as the conduit of experience at the Brunswick, London /  Clare Melhuish; title: Unpleasant matters / Helen Stratford; title: Life matters making place / Doina Petrescu; title: Material responsibility and the work of rural studio / Andrew Freear; title: The new and the renewed / Susannah Hagan.