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Building Materials - Material Theory and the Architectural Specification (Hardcover)
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Building Materials - Material Theory and the Architectural Specification (Hardcover)
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At a time of unprecedented levels of change in the production of
building materials and their deployment in construction, better
theoretical and historical tools are needed to understand these new
developments and how they are altering the practices and concepts
of architecture. Building Materials offers a radical rethink of how
materials, as they are constituted in architectural practice, are
themselves constructed and, in turn, uncovers a vast and neglected
resource of architectural writing about materials as they are
mobilized in architecture. The book is unique in conceiving
architectural specification as a starting point for architectural
theory, arguing that how materials are prescribed - through a range
of practices from the literal processes of procurement and
manufacture to epistemological, contractual, social and economic
frameworks - radically alters their potential in architecture.
Drawing on the work of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon, as well
as close readings of everyday specifications from the 18th to 21st
centuries, the book reveals that materials do not pre-exist their
shaping or use in the world, but come into being through the
processes that constitute them. The book addresses three distinct
methods of specification each through the lens of a different
material – ‘naming’ through timber, ‘process-based’
through concrete, and ‘performance specification’ through glass
– in turn revealing how the process of architectural
specification (or ‘Preliminary Operations’ as Simondon puts it)
allows for the development of specific relationships between
material and function.
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