The Materiality of Architecture by Antoine Picon - 9781517909482

Name: The Materiality of Architecture by Antoine Picon - 9781517909482
Brand: University of Minnesota Press

University of Minnesota Press

The Materiality of ArchitectureAuthor(s): Antoine Picon\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States\nImprint: University of Minnesota Press\nISBN-13: 9781517909482, 978-1517909482\nSynopsis\nA new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies\n\n Digital 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. 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.\n\n Antoine Picon argues that materiality is not only about matter and that the silence and inscrutability-the otherness-of raw materials work against humanitys need to live in a meaningful world. He describes how people define who they are, in part, through their specific physical experience of architectural m.