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Summary
Summary
Beginning with material, this book revolves around physical material making and design decisions that emerge from material interaction.
Combining essays from both practice and academia, this book presents some of the most significant projects and thoughts on materiality from the last decade. Beautifully illustrated with a great deal of technical information throughout, it shows work, technical technique and process, and positions it within a broader theoretical intention.
By assembling a range of voices, here is a multifaceted portrait of material design today. Students and design professionals alike should find in this book an essential resource for understanding this increasingly important aspect of design.
Author Notes
Gail Peter Borden is principal of the Borden Partnership and an Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Southern California. His numerous awards and publications include the Architecture League of New York Young Architects Prize; 2011 AIA Young Architect Award; an artist-in-residence at the Chinati Foundation, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the MacDowell Colony; a Graham Foundation Grant; and the Borchard Fellowship.
Michael Meredith is a principal in the architecture office MOS and an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His writing has appeared in Artforum, Perspecta, LOG, Praxis, Domus, and Harvard Design Magazine, along with many others. The work of MOS has been widely published and received numerous awards. In 2009, MOS was awarded the PS1/MoMA Summer Pavilion.
Reviews 1
Choice Review
With over 40 contributors representing a diversity of academic and practical thought worldwide, Matter is the pedagogy of material exploration as the premise for the making of architecture. Focusing on the practice and thought surrounding materiality, fabrication, and architecture, and using projects both in concept form and actual production, this volume is in essence a compendium of new practices and methodologies that are engaged in the tactile world of matter. The destabilization of people's fundamental understanding of material use is being replaced with fabrication technologies once considered avant-garde. Organized into nine discrete categories, this volume features the contributions of a generation fascinated with thinking through making. The book is liberally blessed with color and black-and-white illustrations, charts, models, and sketches. It is appropriate for all levels of readership. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above; general readers. R. P. Meden Marymount University
