ABSTRACT

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.

part |1 pages

Part I Matter Conversed

chapter |7 pages

Interview 1

chapter |7 pages

Interview 2

chapter |9 pages

Interview 3

chapter |8 pages

Interview 4

part |1 pages

Part II Matter Design

chapter 1|15 pages

Raspberry Fields

chapter 2|13 pages

Voussoir Cloud

chapter 3|23 pages

Light Frames

Matters of material in making

chapter 4|7 pages

Nebula Macula

part |1 pages

Part III Matter Processes

chapter 6|19 pages

Reciprocal Media

chapter 7|11 pages

Open

chapter 8|15 pages

Porous Boundaries

Material transitions from territories to maps

part |1 pages

Part IV Matter Precedent

chapter 9|13 pages

Fixing the Drape

Textile composite walls

chapter 10|17 pages

Tumbling Units

Tectonics of indeterminate extension

chapter 11|7 pages

Monolithic Representations

chapter 12|13 pages

Materiality of the Infrathin

chapter 13|7 pages

Sheet Logics

Speculations on the organizational and cosmetic potential of sheets

part |1 pages

Part V Matter Detail

chapter 14|13 pages

Real Detail – Detail Reality

e dynamicism of fragmentation and “satiszation”

chapter 16|11 pages

Lightness

chapter 18|17 pages

Built to Change

A case for disintegration and obsolescence

part |1 pages

Part VI Matter Ecology

chapter 19|15 pages

Matter is but Captured Energy

part |1 pages

Part VII Matter Pedagogy

chapter C|13 pages

hapter 21 Material Resistance

chapter C|21 pages

hapter 22 Digital Tracery

Fabricating traits

part |1 pages

Part VIII Matter Sensations

chapter C|15 pages

hapter 25 Composite Tectonics

From monolithic wholes to manifold assemblies

part |1 pages

Part IX Matter Surface

chapter C|9 pages

hapter 29 Diachronic Growth

chapter C|13 pages

hapter 30 Bodies in Formation

e material evolution of exible formworks

chapter |2 pages

F igure Credits

chapter I|7 pages

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