Title & Author:

Matter : material processes in architectural production / edited by Gail Peter Borden & Michael Meredith.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2012.

Description:

xv, 497 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Foreign matter / Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith -- Part I. Matter Conversed -- Interview 1 / Stan Allen and Michael Meredith -- Interview 2 / Neil Denari and Gail Peter Borden -- Interview 3 / Michael Maltzan and Gail Peter Borden -- Interview 4 / Nader Tehrani and Michael Meredith -- Part II. Matter Design -- Raspberry Fields / Jason Payne -- Voussoir Cloud / Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott -- Light frames: matters of material in making / Gail Peter Borden -- Nebula macula / Florian Idenburg -- Parametric construction of Roof Tile Beach for Instant HERLEV "Suburb Site Environment": Ukendt Beach / Oliver Hess and Jenna Didier -- Part III. Matter Processes -- Reciprocal media / Eric Howeler and J. Meejin Yoon -- Open / David Benjamin -- Porous boundaries: material transitions from territories to maps / Jason Oliver Vollen and Dale Clifford -- Part IV. Matter Precedent -- Fixing the drape: textile composite walls / Laura Garofalo and David Hill -- Tumbling Units: tectonics of indeterminate extension / Kentaro Tsubaki -- Monolithic representations / W. Andrew Atwood -- Materiality of the infrathin / Michael Carroll -- Sheet logics: speculations on the organizational and cosmetic potential of sheets / Heather Roberge.
Part V. Matter detail -- Real detail -- detail reality: the dynamicism of fragmentation and "satisfization" / Axel Prichard-Schmitzberger -- Detailing articulation / Phillip Anzalone and Stephanie Bayard -- Lightness / John Enright and Margaret Griffin -- Cumulative processes and intimate understandings / Swayne Oyler and Jenny Wu -- Built to change: a case for disintegration and obsolescence / Blair Satterfield and Marc Swackhamer -- Part VI. Matter Ecology -- Matter is but captured energy / Kiel Moe -- A Brise-Soleil without a building / Hilary Sample -- Part VII. Matter Pedagogy -- Material resistance /Jeremy Ficca -- Digital tracery: fabricating traits / Lawrence Blough -- Towards an ecology of making / Santiago R. Perez -- Part VIII. Matter Sensations -- Anna-Log Cabin / Keith Mitnick, Mireille Roddier, and Stewart Hicks -- Composite tectonics: from monolithic wholes to manifold assemblies / Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich -- Alternative forms of malleability / Rhett Russo -- The art of contemporary tracery / Tom Wiscombe -- The Sideways Rocher Project / Warren Techentin -- Part IX. Matter Surface -- Diachronic growth / Thom Faulders -- Bodies in formation: the material evolution of flexible formworks / Andrew Kudless.

Summary:

Beginning with material, this book revolves around physical material making and design decisions that emerge from material interaction. Combining essays from both practice and academia, the book presents some of the most significant projects and thoughts on materiality from the last decade.

ISBN:

9780415780285 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415780284 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415780292 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415780292 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203827024 (ebk)
0203827023 (ebk)

Subject:

Building materials.
Building.
Architecture.
Construction Materials
Construction Matériaux.
Construction.
building materials.
constructions (sculpture)
architecture (discipline)
Architecture and Planning.
Byggnadsmaterial.

Added entries:

Borden, Gail Peter.
Meredith, Michael, 1971-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275024
Call No.: BIB 209019
Status: Available