Title & Author:

Permanent change : plastics in architecture and engineering / produced by Michael Blackwood Productions, Inc ; producer and director, Michael Blackwood.

Publication:

New York, NY : Michael Blackwood Productions, ©2011.

Description:

1 videodisc (59 min., 37 sec.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Notes:
Title from disc label.
"PO# 2762"--Disc label.
Editor, Joëlle Schon ; cinematography, Mead Hunt, Roger Grange, alan McPheely, Rima Yamazaki.
Participants in the conference: Paola Antonelli, Jack Armstrong, Michael Bell, Raimondo Betti, Johan Bettum, Craig Buckley, William F. Carroll, Beatriz Colomina, Hernan Diaz Alsonso, Winka Dubbeldam, Anne Dyson, Billie Faircloth, Mark Goulthorpe, Michael Graves, Laurie Hawkinson, Juan Herreros, Steven Holl, George Jeronimidis, Lydia Kallipoliti, Brian Kane, Sheila Kennedy, Jan Knippers, Craig Konyk, Sanford Kwinter, Sylvia Lavin, Chip Lord, Greg Lynn, Fabian Marcaccio, Michael Meredith, Erik Olsen, Jorge Otero-Pailos, William Pearson, Werner Preusker, Theodore H.M. Prudon, François Roche, Hilary Sample, Rita Schenck, Felicity Scott, Hartmut Oliver Sinkwitz, Werner Sobek, Galia Solomonoff, Heiko Trumpf, Ignaas Verpoest, George Wheeler, Mark Wigley.
DVD.

Summary:

Excerpts of presentations from the 4th Columbia Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials, held on March 30-April 1, 2011. Plastics have become the most ubiquitous and increasingly permanent materials in construction. The material capabilities of plastics both as a generic material nomenclature and as specific polymers and the processes that underlie them suggest a potential to reshape design and the roles of architects and engineers in construction. While plastics are perhaps the most deeply engineered building materials today, they are still in their nascent stages of understanding in terms of their potential applications and uses. Permanent Change sheds new light on these materials and their implications for the fields of architecture and engineering. The conference undertakes to reexamine the histories and reassess the futures of polymers, exploring their origins in industry and science as well as their role in domestic and public realms, up through recent advances in composites and the new forms of fabrication assembly these portend.

Subject:

Plastics in building.
Buildings, Plastic.
Matières plastiques dans la construction.
Constructions en plastique.

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Video recordings (physical artifacts)
DVDs.
Optical disks.
Nonfiction films
Films autres que de fiction.

Added entries:

Blackwood, Michael.
Schon, Joëlle D.
Hunt, Mead.
Michael Blackwood Productions.
Columbia Conference on Architecture, Engineering and Materials (4th : 2011 : New York, NY)

Plastics in architecture and engineering

Holdings:

Location: Library main av 279010
Call No.: BIB 214835
Status: Available