Description: Building Materials : Material Theory and the Architectural Specification, Paperback by Thomas, Katie Lloyd, ISBN 1350277835, ISBN-13 9781350277830, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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. Th 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, th reveals that materials do not pre-exist their shaping or use in the world, but come into being through the processes that constitute them. Th 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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Book Title: Building Materials : Material Theory and the Architectural Specif
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Building Materials : Material Theory and the Architectural Specification
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Subject: Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Engineering (General), Criticism
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2023
Item Weight: 13.6 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Technology & Engineering, Architecture
Author: Katie Lloyd Thomas
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
