on site review 48 building materials
the stuff buildings are made of
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.
front and back cover who we are
Nascent building materials: lumber the fine print Introduction and contents
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very hard materials
Sheila Ayearst Local Works Francesco Martire David Murray
Self-healing concrete Culture of construction Material vestiges: concrete formwork River rocks and field stones: prairie resources
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10 14
building systems
Jim Moses Tegan Moore
Big Easy Redux: building strategies When the light thing becomes heavy: air and foam
20 26
wood
Rafael Gomez-Moriana Lisa Rapoport
Form follows material: CMT Wood shingles
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material research
George Amabile Olive Lazarus Chad Connery and Selina Tran
Building materials: three poems Thatch Root logics
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deep surfaces
Alisha Kapoor and Diana Guo
Soft matter
50
moving on
new call for articles , on site 49
Shorelines
51
Spring 2026
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