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Matter.

Combining essays from both practice and academia, this book includes some of the most significant projects and thoughts on materiality from the last decade. Beautifully illustrated with a great deal of technical information throughout, it is not a coffee-table book with no explanation of how, nor a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Borden, Gail Peter
Otros Autores: Meredith, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; Copyright Page; Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Foreign Matter: Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith; Part I: Matter Conversed; Interview 1: Stan Allen and Michael Meredith; Interview 2: Neil Denari and Gail Peter Borden; Interview 3: Michael Maltzan and Gail Peter Borden; Interview 4: Nader Tehrani and Michael Meredith; Part II: Matter Design; 1. Raspberry Fields: Jason Payne; 2. Voussoir Cloud: Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott.
  • 3. Light Frames: Matters of Material in Making: Gail Peter Borden4. Nebula Macula: Florian Idenburg; 5. Parametric Construction of Roof Tile Beach for Instant HERLEV "Suburb Site Environment": Ukendt Beach: Oliver Hess and Jenna Didier; Part III: Matter Processes; 6. Reciprocal Media: Eric Höweler and J. Meejin Yoon; 7. Open: David Benjamin; 8. Porous Boundaries: Material Transitions from Territories to Maps: Jason Oliver Vollen and Dale Clifford; Part IV: Matter Precedent; 9. Fixing the Drape: Textile Composite Walls: Laura Garófalo and David Hill.
  • 10. Tumbling Units: Tectonics of Indeterminate Extension: Kentaro Tsubaki11. Monolithic Representations: W. Andrew Atwood; 12. Materiality of the Infrathin: Michael Carroll; 13. Sheet Logics: Speculations on the Organizational and Cosmetic Potential of Sheets: Heather Roberge; Part V: Matter Detail; 14. Real Detail
  • Detail Reality: The Dynamicism of Fragmentation and "Satisfization": Axel Prichard-Schmitzberger; 15. Detailing Articulation: Phillip Anzalone and Stephanie Bayard; 16. Lightness: John Enright and Margaret Griffin.
  • 17. Cumulative Processes and Intimate Understandings: Dwayne Oyler and Jenny Wu18. Built to Change: A case for Disintegration and Obsolescence: Blair Satterfield and Marc Swackhamer; Part VI: Matter Ecology; 19. Matter is but Captured Energy: Kiel Moe; 20. A Brise-Soleil without a Building: Hilary Sample; Part VII: Matter Pedagogy; 21. Material Resistance: Jeremy Ficca; 22. Digital Tracery: Fabricating Traits: Lawrence Blough; 23. Towards an Ecology of Making: Santiago R. Pérez; Part VIII: Matter Sensations; 24. Ana-Log Cabin: Keith Mitnick, Mireille Roddier, and Stewart Hicks.
  • 25. Composite Tectonics: From Monolithic Wholes to Manifold Assemblies: Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich26. Alternative Forms of Malleability: Rhett Russo; 27. The Art of Contemporary Tracery: Tom Wiscombe; 28. The Sideways Rocker Project: Warren Techentin; Part IX: Matter Surface; 29. Diachronic Growth: Thom Faulders; 30. Bodies in Formation: The Material Evolution of Flexible Formworks: Andrew Kudless; Figure Credits; Index.