Title & Author:

Material matters : architecture and material practice / edited by Katie Lloyd Thomas.

Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

262 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
The book has developed out of the international conference 'Material matters: materiality in contemporary architectural practice and theory' held at the School of Architecture and the Visual Arts at the University of East London, Mar. 29-Apr. 3, 2004.
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.

Resources:
Table of contents only

ISBN:

041536325X (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415363268 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
020301362X (ebook)
9780415363259 (hbk.)
9780415363266 (pbk.)
9780203013625 (ebk.)

Subject:

Building materials.
Architecture.
Construction Matériaux.
building materials.

Added entries:

Thomas, Katie Lloyd.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 252750
Call No.: NA2540 .M385 2007
Status: Available