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Informationen zum Autor Katie Lloyd Thomas Zusammenfassung This book examines the use of materials in architecture, considering their meaning, implications, influences and practical use, going beyond a simple technical view to discover the forces that shape 'the stuff of building'. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Architecture and Material Practice. Plans to Matter: Towards a History of Material Possibility. A Royal Gittern at the British Museum. Plenums: Re-Thinking Matter, Geometry and Subjectivity. Gordon Matta-Clark: Matter, Materiality, Entropy, Alchemy. Marx Matters or Aesthetics, Technology, and the Spirit of Matter. The Thinking Hand. Material Imprecision. Pumping Up: Digital Steroids and the Design Studio. A Philosophy of Engagement: Material, Process and Collective Action. Material Matters Workshop: A Photographic Essay. Surface Structures in the Digital Age: Studies in Ferrocement. Out of Control: Architecture's Media, Cybernetics and Design. The Methodology of Construction: The Gentleman's Tailor and the Home Sewer. Re-Fabrications. Between Birds' Nests and Manor Houses: Edwardian Cape Town and the Political Nature of Building Materials. Concrete as Conduit of Experience at the Brunswick, London. Unpleasant Matters. Material Responsibility and the Work of Rural Studio. Life Matters Making Place. The New and the Renewed
