THE MATERIAL IMAGINATION

n recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'm aterial honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' Motivated in part by the development of new materials and an increasing integration of designers in fabricating architecture, a proliferation of recent publications from both practice and academia explore the pragmatics of materiality and its role as a protagonist of architectural form. Yet, as the ethos of material pragmatism gains m ore popul...[Read more]