Foreword, by Philip Beesley
Preface, by Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel
Introduction: Experimental Performances: Materials as Actors, by Rashida Ng
Chapter 1: Material Ontologies
Essay: Approaching a Material History of Architecture, by 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
SybiosisO / Kärt Ojavee and Eszter Ozvald
Ectoplasmic 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, by 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 Klussman
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, by Phil Ayres, Martin Tamke, and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
Q + A: Brandon Clifford, 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, by 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 / Geoffrey Th?n and Kathy Velikov
Q + A: Shaun Murray, with Sneha Patel
Chapter 5: Material Futures
Essay: Speculations of Future Materiality, by Rashida Ng
Contributing Authors
Index