<DIV>Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Indiaβs Mughal monumentsβincluding majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahalβare world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent. I
Architecture: The Subject is Matter
β Scribed by Jonathan Hill (editor)
- Publisher
- Routledge
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- 2014
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- English
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β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Subject/Matter β’ Jonathan Hill
Section 1: Building Matter
1. The Future is Hairy β’ Jeremy Till and Sarah Wigglesworth
2. Two Architectural Projects about Purity β’ Katherine Shonfiel
3. Bloom β’ Niall McLaughlin and Martin Richman
4. Weather Architecture (Berlin 1929β30, Barcelona 1986β, Barcelona 1999β) β’ Jonathan Hill
5. Whatβs the Matter with Architecture? β’ David J. Gunkel
Section 2: Spatial Matter
6. Notopia: Leaky Products/Urban Interfaces β’ Dunne + Raby
7. Comfort, Anxiety and Space β’ David Sibley
8. Stairway Architecture: Transformative Cycles in the Golden Lane β’ lain Borden
9. The Place of Prepositions: A Space Inhabited by Angels β’ Jane Rendell and Pamela Wells
Section 3: Body Matter
10. Bauhaus Dream-house: Forming the Imaginary Body of the Ungendered Architect β’ Katerina Ruedi Ray
11. Black Matter(s): Such as? Does it? β’ Lesley Naa Norle Lokko
12. Surplus Matter: of Scars, Scrolls, Skulls and Stealth β’ Mark Dorrian
13. Animal Architecture β’ Peg Rawes
14. Nanotechnology β the Liberation of Architecture β’ Neil Spiller
15. Biological (or βWetβ) Architecture β’ Rachel Armstrong
Index
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