Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production MATERIAL PROCESSES IN ARCHITECTURAL PRODUCTION

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 bookpresents 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 isa 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.

Introduction: Foreign Matter Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith Part 1: Matter Conversed Stan Allen,Neil Denari, Michael Maltzan, Nader Tehrani (Office dA)Part 2:Matter Design 1.Strawberry FieldsJason Payne, Hirsuta 2. Voissoir Cloud Lisa Iwamoto and Craig Scott, IwamototScott 3. Light Frames Gail Peter Borden, Borden Partnership 4. Nebula Macula Florian Idenburg, IL-SO 5.Roof Tile Beach Oliver Hess and Jenna Didier, EMANATE Part 3: Matter Processes 6. Reciprocal Media Eric Howeler and Meejin Yoon, Howleer/Yoon7. Open David Benjamin 8. Porous Boundaries Jason Vollen and Dale Clifford, Binary Part 4: Matter Precedent 9. Fixing the Drape: Textile Composite Walls David Hill and Laura Garofalo 10. Tumbling Units: Tectonics of Indeterminate Extension Kentaro Tsubaki 11.Monolithic RepresentationsAndrew Atwood, ATWOOD 12. Materiality of the InfrathinMichael Carroll, atelier BUILD 13. Sheet LogicsHeather RobergePart 5: Matter Detail 14. Real Detail - Detail Reality Axel Schmitzberger 15.Detailing ArticulationPhillip Anzalone + Stephanie Bayard, aa64 16. Lightness John Enright + Margaret Griffin, GEA 17. Cumulative Processes and Intimate Understandings Dwayne Oyler + Jenny Wu, Oyler/Wu 18.Built to ChangeBlair Satterfield and Marc Swackhamer Part 6: Matter Ecology 19. Matter is but Captured Energy Kiel Moe 20.A Brise-Soleil without a BuildingHilary Sample, MOS Part 7: Mattter Pedagogy 21. Material Resistance Jeremy Ficca 22.Digital Tracery: Fabricating Traits Lawrence Blough, Graftworks23. Towards an Ecology of Making Santiago Perez Part 8: Matter Sensations 24. Ana-Log Cabins Mireille Roddier, Keith Mitnick & Stewart Hicks, Mitnick Roddier Hicks 25.Composite Tectonics Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich, PATTERNS 26. Alternative Forms of Malleability Rhett Russo, OrangeHorse 27. The Art of Contemporary Tracery Tom Wiscombe, EMERGENT Part 9: Matter Surface 28.Diachronic GrowthThom Faulders, Faulders Studio 30. Bodies in Formation Andrew Kudless, Matsys

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.