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020			_a9781350176225 (e-book)
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041			_aeng
050			_aTA403.6 _bL59L77 2022
100			_aLloyd Thomas, Katie _932504 _eauthor
245			_aBuilding materials : _bmaterial theory and the architectural specification / _cby Katie Lloyd Thomas.
260			_aLondon [England] : _bBloomsbury Visual Arts, _c2022
300			_a1 online resource (273, pages) : _bcolor illustrations.
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338			_2rdacarrier _aonline resource
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505			_a1. Introduction -- 2. Specifying building materials -- 3. Naming materials -- 4. Process -- 5. Performance -- 6. Systems of material -- 7. Going into the mould
520			_aAt 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 close readings of everyday specifications from the 18th to 21st centuries, the book reveals that 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 the development of specific relationships between material and function.
541			_aFund 164 _bCE-Logic _cPurchased _dNovember 9, 2022 _eOEBP000363 _fP. Roderno _hPHP 11,717.30 _p2022-11-1010 _q2022-9-1288
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650		0	_a Buildings Specifications _932505
650		0	_aConstruction Materials _932506
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