Description
Beginning with material, this book revolves around physical material making and design decisions that emerge from material interaction.
Combining essays from both practice and academia, this book presents 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 shows work, technical technique and process, and positions it within a broader theoretical intention.
By assembling a range of voices, here is a multifaceted portrait of material design today. Students and design professionals alike should find in this book an essential resource for understanding this increasingly important aspect of design.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Foreign Matter Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith Part 1: Matter Conversed Stan Allen, Neil Denari, Michael Maltzan, Nader Tehrani (Office dA) Part 2: Matter Design 1. Strawberry Fields Jason Payne, Hirsuta 2. Voissoir Cloud Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott, IwamototScott 3. Light Frames Gail Peter Borden, Borden Partnership 4. Nebula Macula Florian Idenburg, IL-SO 5. Roof Tile Beach Oliver Hess and Jenna Didier, EMANATE Part 3: Matter Processes 6. Reciprocal Media Eric Howeler and Meejin Yoon, Howleer/Yoon 7. Open David Benjamin 8. Porous Boundaries Jason Vollen and Dale Clifford, Binary Part 4: Matter Precedent 9. Fixing the Drape: Textile Composite Walls David Hill and Laura Garofalo 10. Tumbling Units: Tectonics of Indeterminate Extension Kentaro Tsubaki 11. Monolithic Representations Andrew Atwood, ATWOOD 12. Materiality of the Infrathin Michael Carroll, atelier BUILD 13. Sheet Logics Heather Roberge Part 5: Matter Detail 14. Real Detail - Detail Reality Axel Schmitzberger 15. Detailing Articulation Phillip Anzalone + Stephanie Bayard, aa64 16. Lightness John Enright + Margaret Griffin, GEA 17. Cumulative Processes and Intimate Understandings Dwayne Oyler + Jenny Wu, Oyler/Wu 18. Built to Change Blair Satterfield and Marc Swackhamer Part 6: Matter Ecology 19. Matter is but Captured Energy Kiel Moe 20. A Brise-Soleil without a Building Hilary Sample, MOS Part 7: Mattter Pedagogy 21. Material Resistance Jeremy Ficca 22. Digital Tracery: Fabricating Traits Lawrence Blough, Graftworks 23. Towards an Ecology of Making Santiago Perez Part 8: Matter Sensations 24. Ana-Log Cabins Mireille Roddier, Keith Mitnick & Stewart Hicks, Mitnick Roddier Hicks 25. Composite Tectonics Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, PATTERNS 26. Alternative Forms of Malleability Rhett Russo, OrangeHorse 27. The Art of Contemporary Tracery Tom Wiscombe, EMERGENT Part 9: Matter Surface 28. Diachronic Growth Thom Faulders, Faulders Studio 30. Bodies in Formation Andrew Kudless, Matsys
