Matter : material processes in architectural production /

Matter : material processes in architectural production / edited by Gail Peter Borden & Michael Meredith. - New York : Routledge, 2012. - xv, 497 p. : ill. (mostly col.) ; 26 cm.

Content

Introduction: Foreign matter

Part I. Matter Conversed

Part II. Matter Design

1. Raspberry Fields
2. Voussoir Cloud
3. Light frames: matters of material in making
4. Nebula macula
5. Parametric construction of Roof Tile Beach for Instant HERLEV "Suburb Site Environment": Ukendt Beach

Part III. Matter Processes

6. Reciprocal media
7. Open
8. Porous boundaries: material transitions from territories to maps

Part IV. Matter Precedent

9. Fixing the drape: textile composite walls
10. Tumbling Units: tectonics of indeterminate extension
11. Monolithic representations
12. Materiality of the infrathin
13. Sheet logics: speculations on the organizational and cosmetic potential of sheets

Part V. Matter detail

14. Real detail-detail reality: the dynamicism of fragmentation and "satisfization"
15. Detailing articulation
16. Lightness
17. Cumulative processes and intimate understandings
18. Built to change: a case for disintegration and obsolescence

Part VI. Matter Ecology

19. Matter is but captured energy
20. A Brise-Soleil without a building

Part VII. Matter Pedagogy

21. Material resistance
22. Digital tracery: fabricating traits
23. Towards an ecology of making

Part VIII. Matter Sensations

24. Anna-Log Cabin
25. Composite tectonics: from monolithic wholes to manifold assemblies
26. Alternative forms of malleability
27. The art of contemporary tracery
28. The Sideways Rocher Project

Part IX. Matter Surface

29. Diachronic growth
30. Bodies in formation: the material evolution of flexible formworks



Includes Index: P. 491-497

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Building materials.
Building.
Architecture.

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