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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