Title & Author:

Material reform : building for a post-carbon future / Material Cultures

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

[London] : MACK, [2022]
©2022

Description:

143 pages : illustrations (color) ; 18 cm

Notes:
"Reform, resources, soil, clay, extraction, supply chains, value, maintenance, demolition, timber, technification, quantification, oil vernacular, stone, carbon, factories, agriculture, land use, straw."--Page one of the cover.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 126-137) and index.
Material Cultures, co-authored by Amica Dall, with an introduction by Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and photographs by Jess Gough. -- Publisher's website.

Summary:

The first book by the design and research practice Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the degradation of our landscapes. How this has came about and how alternative systems, with holistic approaches to the built environment, might be formulated are explored. 'Material Reform' presents a set of instructive and challenging perspectives drawing directly on the dialogues and tensions Material Cultures encounter in their ongoing work.

ISBN:

1913620816 (paperback)
9781913620813 (paperback)

Subject:

Sustainable design.
Sustainable development.
Écoconception.
Développement durable.
sustainable architecture.
sustainable development.

Added entries:

Material Cultures (Organization), author.

Material Cultures: material reform

Holdings:

Location: Library main 317012
Call No.: 317012
Copy: 1
Status: Available