TY  - BOOK
AU  - Borden,Gail Peter
AU  - Meredith,Michael
TI  - Matter: material processes in architectural production 
SN  - 9780415780285 (hbk : alk. paper)
U1  - 721.044 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Building materials
KW  - Building
KW  - Architecture
N1  - 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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