48: building materials

Building materials are those things of which architecture is made. They are worth looking at in detail, especially in these transitional times where practices of extraction, manufacture, demolition and replacement have environmental consequences. Will this make a new kind of architecture? Many of the essays in this issue are optimistic. Yes.


Nascent building materials: logs
1

contents
3

Sheila Ayearst: self-healing concrete
4

Local Works: collaborations
8

Francesco Martire: concrete form work
10

David Murray: fieldstone
14

James Moses: changing building strategies
20

Tegan Moore: air and foam
26

Rafael Gomez-Moriana: form follows material
28

Lisa Rapoport: shingles
32

George Amabile: three poems
38

Olive Lazarus: Thatch
40

Chad Connery and Salina Tran: root logics
47

Alisha Kapoor and Diana Guo
50

call for articles: 49: shorelines
51

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