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Material Imagination in Architecture (Hardcover)
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Material Imagination in Architecture (Hardcover)
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Material Imagination in Architecture draws on history and the
visual arts, and contemporary architecture to explore this popular
theme in architectural practice and education. In the context of a
discipline increasingly driven by digital production, this text
explores architecture and making and the diverse influences on the
material reality of architectural form: it argues that the crafts,
fabrication and assemblage of its making remain vital elements of
contemporary architectural language. This broad-ranging text
bridges the gap between a technical or otherwise fragmentary
knowledge of materials of the specialist, and the tacit or
instinctive understanding of materials that the artist, sculptor or
architect may have. It identifies key material themes pertinent to
contemporary architectural debate and develops a discourse about
future practice that is framed by environmental imperatives and
grounded in a historical understanding of the meaning and use of
materials. Material iconology in architecture is a well-established
tradition and this book draws on that background to investigate the
possibilities, and limits, of using materials in contemporary
design to communicate the themes and contexts of an architectural
project, a material's relationship to context, and to the history
of practices that belong to the traditions of making buildings.
Each theme is explored in case studies from twelve countries around
the world, including the UK, USA, Spain, Italy, Germany, Australia
and China.
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