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Building Materials : Material Theory and the Architectural Specification by PROFESSOR KATIE LLOYD THOMAS is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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 rare archival materials of specifications, the book reveals why 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 distin

Who reads Building Materials : Material Theory and the Architectural Specification?

Author

PROFESSOR KATIE LLOYD THOMAS

Publisher

Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350277830

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Architecture, Philosophy, Engineering