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