ABSTRACT
GPB: ere is an emerging generation of practitioners, that span from their late twenties to early forties in age, that are all grappling with the issue of materiality in some way. In an era of post-digital fabrication issues that dominated the 1990s, there is a movement beyond that, that all those skills are now intrinsic in a way and the fascination with the process just as a process isn’t as exciting, so now there is this idea of how we put some of those things into production. e goal of this book is to address a cross-section of practices as intriguing snapshots of current practice and give us a perspective on issues of materiality in contemporary architecture. Coming o of these generational waves: early 1980s history dominated, late 1980s, early 1990s philosophy started dominating, in the late 1990s digital media dominated, and now this generation has full skills in all of these areas and isn’t necessarily obsessed with any one of them and is looking towards the idea of materiality. It is really trying to confront matter and physicality in some way. In some ways the economy has aided this in terms of opportunities as there are not the largescale projects, and as a result it is creating a generation where people are looking at the installation or artifact in some way, not always buildings, but are interested in the physical making something as a way of thinking.
