ABSTRACT
MM: We are trying to frame a certain pedagogical discourse that is of a particular moment, and perhaps a particular generation, where there is a return to thinking about materiality. If materiality was at one point the enemy of the formal, humanist project, it is not any more. It is probably closer to an avantgarde trajectory, that is to say, materiality is now used to nd new methods of non-composition through rethinking the part to whole relations of “tasteful” composition. Materiality provides ways to destroy the objectness of architecture. It is a tool for undermining the status quo. ere are now many dierent groups in relation to material. ere is the Aalto-esque camp, there are those who are looking for new kinds of logics within materials, and there are those who are looking for new ways of thinking about organization through material.
