The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of
architecture, and to explore their interdependence. There are now
many architectures. This book acknowledges architecture far beyond
the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassesses the object
at its centre: the building. Architectural matter is not always
physical or building fabric. It is whatever architecture is made
of, whether words, bricks, blood cells, sounds or pixels. The
fifteen chapters are divided into three sections - on buildings,
spaces and bodies - which each deal with a particular understanding
of architecture and architectural matter.
The richness and diversity of subjects and materials discussed in
this book locates architecture firmly in the world as a whole, not
just the domain of architects. In stating that architecture is far
more than the work of architects, this book aims not to deny the
importance of architects in the production of architecture but to
see their role in more balanced terms and to acknowledge other
architectural producers. Architecture can, for example, be found in
the incisions of a surgeon, the instructions of a choreographer or
the movements of a user. Architecture can be made of anything and
by anyone.
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