Main entry:

Picon, Antoine, author.

Title & Author:

The materiality of architecture / Antoine Picon.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

183 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Notes:
"A portion of this book was originally published as La Matérialité de l'architecture (Marseille: Editions Parenthèses, 2018)."
Portions tranlsated from the French.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : matter, materials, materiality -- 1. From making to expression -- 2. Architecture and language : an incomplete encounter -- 3. Animation and materiality -- 4. Architectural history and regimes of materiality -- 5. Architecture and materiality in the digital era -- Conclusion. Situations and décors : toward a politics of architectural materiality.

Summary:

"A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies"-- Provided by publisher.
Antoine Picon argues that materiality is not only about matter and that the silence and inscrutability—the otherness—of raw materials work against humanity’s need to live in a meaningful world. Ultimately, Picon concludes that computer-based design methods are not an abrupt departure from previous architectural traditions but rather a new way for architects to control material resources.

ISBN:

9781517909475 hardcover
1517909473 hardcover
9781517909482 paperback
1517909481 paperback
electronic book
9781452963747

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture and anthropology.
Architecture et anthropologie.

Added entries:

Grater, Abigail, translator.
Picon, Antoine. Matérialité de l'architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325551
Call No.: 325551
Copy: 1
Status: Available