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This book, the first by the design and research practice Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the de­structive ecologies it fosters. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the degradation of our landscapes. Here, Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam, and George Massoud explore how this has come about and how alternative systems, with holistic approaches to the built environment, might be formulated.Material Reform presents a set of instructive and challenging perspectives drawing directly on the dialogues and tensions Material Cultures encounter in their day-to-day work. Texts centred around key concepts including labour, time, maintenance, language, land, and touch are interwoven with a visual essay reckoning with the processes that have transformed industrialised landscapes at different scales of experience and resolution. Through text and visuals, con­cepts and practice, this book explores how developing a direct relationship with materials can help us find new languages with the potential to supersede those we have inherited from a narrow lineage of authors. These discursive threads come together to form a vital sourcebook for rethinking our relationships to materials, land, and development, in all their crucial intersections.

Building materials --- Construction --- Research --- Environmental aspects --- Matériaux --- Recherche --- Aspect de l'environnement --- 691 --- Bouwmaterialen (architectuur) --- Materialen (design) --- Architectuur en ecologie ; 21ste eeuw --- Architectuur; materialen --- Duurzame ; ecologische ; constructietechnieken --- Assemble ; Collectief rond architectuur, kunst en design --- Voetafdrukken ; energiegebruik ; energieketens --- Bouwmaterialen

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We would like to think that we ‘know’ what goes into making a modern building. But the truth is that no one, not even architects, knows. The OUR [Office for Uncertainty Research] spent three years studying a single, relatively modest modern house located in Seattle, WA. The research focused on four vectors: Atomic Consciousness that dates back to the Big Bang and the earliest Super Novas: Production Consciousness that involves a vast array of ingredients that are combined to make architectural products: Labor Consciousness that spans a wide spectrum of temporal and economic conditions; and Source Consciousness that is multilayered and global in its reach. Though much was learned, it became clear that a huge proportion of what we ‘know’ about the house was unknowable, not because our epistemological instruments aren’t strong enough or calibrated precisely enough, but because things themselves are indeterminate, uncertain. This begs the question about agency. If we are to critique our profession and even improve some of its claims about Sustainability, then we must develop a more robust understanding of the building industry and the sourcing and making of materials. We must even develop a stronger awareness of the history of atoms and how architecture brings that history into a remarkable focus.

Duurzame woningbouw ; 21ste eeuw --- Kwaliteitszorg; Bouwproces --- Duurzame architectuur ; materialen --- Bouwmaterialen ; bouwtechnieken ; geschiedenis en toekomst --- Architectuurdetails ; materialen --- Architectuur en ecologie ; lokale materialen --- 691(03) --- Bouwmaterialen --- Private houses --- architecture [discipline] --- architectural theory --- sustainable architecture --- 69 --- 691 --- 691.1 --- 574 --- Bouwwezen --- Bouwmaterialen (architectuur) --- Bouwmaterialen van organische oorsprong --- Ecologie & bioverscheidenheid