building materials

Architecture presents its material face to the world, its material structure to itself. In this issue we have challenges to this: materials can be ancient, convenient, inappropriate, problematic, surprising, apt. From traditional to innovative, from new to old, there are historical shifts along such trajectories that relate to technology, conflict, exploration, revision, identity, manufacturing and refinement capacities. Skill sets, scarcity of raw materials, or surplus materials — all these are unpredictable, and yet, somehow, architecture responds. And not only architecture, but artists, writers, poets, researchers, theorists and conservators.

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