Immaterial Architecture (Hardcover)

Architecture is expected to be solid, stable and reassuring-physically, socially and psychologically. Bound to each other, the architectural and the material are considered inseparable.
Jonathan Hill, architect and architectural historian, argues that the immaterial is as important to architecture as the material and has as long a history and so "Immaterial Architecture" explores the often conflicting forces that draw architecture towards either the material or the immaterial. The book discusses the pressures on architecture and the architectural profession to respectively be solid matter and solid practice, and considers concepts that align architecture with the immaterial, such as the superiority of ideas over matter, command of drawing, and design of spaces and surfaces.
Focusing on immaterial architecture as the perceived absence of matter more than the actual absence of matter, Hill devises new means to explore the creativity of the user and the architect. Users decide whether architecture is immaterial, but architects, and any other architectural producers, create material conditions in which that decision can be made. "Immaterial Architecture" advocates an architecture that fuses the immaterial and the material, and considers its consequences, challenging preconceptions about architecture, its practice, purpose, matter and use.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Jonathan Hill
Dimensions:	246 x 174 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	248
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-36323-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture
LSN:	0-415-36323-3
Barcode:	9780415363235

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