ABSTRACT

This comprehensive catalogue of contemporary work examines the renewed investment in the relationship between representation, materiality, and architecture. It assembles a range of diverse voices across various institutions, practices, generations, and geographies, through specific case studies that collectively present a broader theoretical intention.

part 1|32 pages

Interviews

chapter |12 pages

Interview 1

chapter |11 pages

Interview 2

chapter |4 pages

Interview 3

chapter |3 pages

Interview 4

part 2|70 pages

Material representation and design

chapter 1|11 pages

Force to form

Operational logics of a material reality

chapter 3|5 pages

The Tower of Twelve Stories

chapter 4|10 pages

Luminous Passage and o(H)

Our brief affair with EL Wire and my lasting love for Tempest

chapter 5|5 pages

Ragged edges

The story of the quasicrystal

chapter 6|13 pages

Amant

Brooklyn, NY

chapter 7|15 pages

3.C.City

part 3|66 pages

Material representation and process

chapter 8|16 pages

Expanded Mechanisms

The signalization of material

chapter 10|9 pages

Embodied computation

The changing relationship of physical form and geometry

chapter 11|10 pages

Post Rock

Material and Medium

chapter 12|19 pages

Loss of control

Error, glitch, and imperfection in architecture

part 4|50 pages

Material representation and technique

chapter 13|8 pages

The Great Roe

chapter 14|11 pages

Postdigital materiality

chapter 15|14 pages

Paranormal Panorama

chapter 16|8 pages

Edges

chapter 17|7 pages

Outside the lines

part 5|64 pages

Material representation and perception/effect

chapter 18|12 pages

Built drawing

chapter 19|13 pages

Houses of sufficient density

chapter 20|7 pages

Inverting Neutra

chapter 21|15 pages

Que viene el Coco

[Here comes the Boogeyman]

chapter 22|15 pages

Drawing big