Materiality of Architecture
Materiality of Architecture A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologiesDigital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone,…
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Materiality of Architecture
A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologiesDigital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. He describes how people define who they are, in part, through their specific physical experience of architectural materials and spaces. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how technology may--or may not--be changing how we think about them.Antoine Picon argues that materiality is not only about matter and that the silence and inscrutability--the otherness--of raw materials work against humanity's need to live in a meaningful world.
Indeed, Picon asserts, the entire paradox of the architectural discipline consists in
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