Performative Materials in Architecture and Design

Performative Materials in Architecture and Design addresses the convergence of several significant and fundamental advancements in the ways that materials and environments are designed, evaluated and experienced within architecture and related disciplines. The emergence of experimental and ultra-performing materials, interactive processing systems and digital design and fabrication techniques has established an interconnected network or technological inputs that has stimulated the development of materials, assemblies and systems with performative properties. Providing an overview of representative design projects and relevant theories, this volume illuminates both the interaction of these technologies and the role of materiality in research, design and practice.

Table of Contents:
Foreword – Philip Beesley Preface – Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel Introduction: Experimental Performances: Materials as Actors – Rashida Ng Chapter 1: Material Ontologies  Essay: Approaching a Material History of Architecture – Jason Crow Projects Hylozoic Ground, Philip Beesley, Rob Gorbet, and Rachel Armstrong  Wanderings, Sean Lally  Material Animation, Manuel Kretzer and Ruairi Glynn  Breathing Bowels, Dustin Tobias  SymbiosisO, Kärt Ojavee and Eszter Ozsvald  Ectoplasmatic Library, Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos  The Absent Body of Architecture, Andrew Lewthwaite Biospheres, Not Buildings, Zbigniew Oksiuta  Q + A: Steve Pike with Sneha Patel  Chapter 2: Material Elements Essay: New Material Compositions – Martina Decker Q + A: Liat Margolis  with Sneha Patel Projects Bloom, Doris Sung Nano-Textiles and Architectural Form, Klaudia Biala Blingcrete, Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann Latent Shift, Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel Biomanufactured Brick, Ginger Krieg Dosier Shape_Shift, Manuel Kretzer, Edyta Augustynowicz, Sofia Georgakopoulou, Stefanie Sixt, and Dino Rossi Nano Vent-Skin, Agustin Otegui Saiz Reef, Robert Ley and Joshua G. Stein Q + A: Omar Khan with Sneha Patel Chapter 3: Material Fabrications Essay: Making a Digital-Material Practice – Phil Ayres, Martin Tamke, and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen Q + A: Brandon Cliff ord, Wes Mcgee, and David Pigram with Sneha Patel Projects Unikabeton Prototype, Per Dombernowsky and Asbjørn Søndergaard Contested Boundaries, Joseph Choma Smocking: Pleated Surfaces, Kentaro Tsubaki Designed Disorder, Phillip Anzalone, Brigette Borders, and Kerri Henderson The Seat Slug, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello Oxalis, Vincent Hui, Michael Lanctot, and Pierre-Alexandre Le Lay Pinch Wall, Jeremy Ficca and P. Zach Ali Tectonic Horizons, Joshua G. Stein Porous Ascend, Jacob Riiber Q + A: Patrick Harrop and Peter Hasdell with Sneha Patel Chapter 4: Material Behaviors Essay: Live Inputs: Variable Outputs – Nataly Gattegno Projects Reef, Aurélie Mossé, Guggi Kofod, and David Gauthier OpenHouse, Francis Bitonti and Brian Osborn Wind Screen, Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler The ‘Envirogrammic’ Response, Mark Smout and Laura Allen Actuated Matter, Karmen Franinovic, Manuel Kretzer, Daniel Bisig, Florian Wille, Mathias Gmachl, and Rachel Wingfield Beyond the New Materialism, Michael Silver Adaptive Fa[ca]de, Marilena Skavara The Stratus Project, Geoff rey Thün and Kathy Velikov Q + A: Shaun Murray with Sneha Patel Chapter 5: Material Futures Essay: Speculations of Future Materiality – Rashida Ng