Author Description

Introduction: Architecture And Material Practice / Katie Lloyd Thomas -- Plans To Matter: Towards A History Of Material Possibility / Andrew Benjamin -- A Royal Gittern At The British Museum / Niall Mclaughlin -- Gordon Matta-clark: Matter, Materiality, Entropy, Alchemy / Stephen Walker -- Plenums: Re-thinking Matter, Geometry And Subjectivity / Peg Rawes -- Marx Matters, Or, Aesthetics, Technology, And The Spirit Of Matter / Jon Goodbun -- The Thinking Hand / Raoul Bunschoten -- Material Imprecision / Elizabeth Shotton -- Pumping Up: Digital Steroids And The Design Studio / Scott Poole -- A Philosophy Of Engagement: Developing A Strategic Ability Through Direct Engagement With Material, Process And Collective Action / Alan Chandler -- Workshops -- Surface Structures In The Digital Age: Studies In Ferrocement / Martin Bechthold -- Out Of Control: The Media Of Architecture, Cybernetics And Design / Pablo Miranda Carranza -- The Methodology Of Construction: The Gentleman's Tailor And The Home Sewer / Rachel Cruise -- Re-fabrications / Richard Wilson -- Between Birds' Nests And Manor Houses: Edwardian Cape Town And The Political Nature Of Building Materials / Nicholas Coetzer -- Concrete As The Conduit Of Experience At The Brunswick, London / Clare Melhuish -- Unpleasant Matters / Helen Stratford -- Life Matters Making Place / Doina Petrescu -- Material Responsibility And The Work Of Rural Studio / Andrew Freear -- The New And The Renewed / Susannah Hagan. Edited By Katie Lloyd Thomas. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.