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- 020 __ |a 9781350176225 |q hardcover
- 020 __ |a 1350176222 |q hardcover
- 020 __ |a 9781350277830 |q paperback
- 020 __ |a 1350277835 |q paperback
- 020 __ |z 9781350176232 |q electronic book
- 020 __ |z 9781350176256 |q electronic book
- 020 __ |z 9781350176249 |q electronic publication
- 040 __ |a DLC |b eng |e rda |c DLC |d OCLCO |d OCLCF |d YDX |d OCLCO
- 050 00 |a TA403.6 |b .L59 2022
- 100 1_ |a Lloyd Thomas, Katie, |e author.
- 245 10 |a Building materials : |b material theory and the architectural specification / |c Katie Lloyd Thomas.
- 260 __ |a London, UK ; |a New York, NY : |b Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, |c 2022.
- 300 __ |a xii, 257 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 25 cm
- 336 __ |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent
- 337 __ |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia
- 338 __ |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier
- 504 __ |a Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 520 __ |a "At a time of unprecedented levels of change in the production of building materials and their deployment in construction, better theoretical and historical tools are needed to understand these new developments and how they are altering the practices and concepts of architecture. Building Materials offers a radical rethink of how materials, as they are constituted in architectural practice, are themselves constructed and, in turn, uncovers a vast and neglected resource of architectural writing about materials as they are mobilized in architecture. The book is unique in conceiving architectural specification as a starting point for architectural theory, arguing that how materials are prescribed - through a range of practices from the literal processes of procurement and manufacture to epistemological, contractual, social and economic frameworks - radically alters their potential in architecture. Drawing on the work of French philosopher Gilbert Simondon, as well as rare archival materials of specifications, the book reveals why materials do not pre-exist their shaping or use in the world, but come into being through the processes that constitute them. The book addresses three distinct methods of specification each through the lens of a different material - 'naming' through timber, 'process-based' through concrete, and 'performance specification through' glass - in turn revealing how the process of architectural specification (or 'Preliminary Operations' as Simondon puts it) allows for development of specific relationships between material and function"-- |c Provided by publisher.
- 650 _0 |a Building materials.
- 650 _0 |a Architecture |x Philosophy.