ABSTRACT
The raw and the cooked, cooking techniques to replicate rawness and using previously uncooked materials to cook up new architecture, are not novelties but serious engagements with the history of architectural thinking. 'Going native' covers a lot of ideological ground being trod upon by everything from celebrity philanthropy to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the flows of global capital. Their embeddeness in matters of survival, pleasure, meaning and all cycles of production allow them to serve as particularly useful nodes for understanding the values attached to these various forces. Instead, by looking at the vicissitudes of the raw and the cooked, by recalibrating the values attached to materials as such, by reconsidering how much is enough and if waste is just a good thing in the wrong place. Architecture can be a strong ally to substantive environmental thinking and potent opponent of ideologies determined to continue opposing the raw and the cooked.
