This book, the first by 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. 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.
Material Reform is available to order here.
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'In Material Reform, Material Cultures rethinks the cultures, systems, and infrastructures of how we make architecture.’ The Architect’s Newspaper (Online)
"[Material Reform] highlights possibilities for sustainable and future-proof building... appealing for a new way of looking at construction and the systems in which it is embedded." Stylepark (Online)
"Material Reform is a reminder that powerful things can come in small packages." A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books (Online)
"Through a series of essays, interwoven with photography by Jess Gough, architects Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam and George Massoud explain what is wrong with contemporary architecture, how it got there, and how it needs to change by rethinking our relationship with materials and the land from which we extract them." The Fifth Estate (Online)
"Material Reform shows that repairing current destructive practices is both an urgent and achievable aim to ensure a move towards a more equitable post-carbon future." London Society (Online)
"Material Reform calls for a more harmonious relationship between the built environment and the natural world." Azure Magazine (Online)
"Material Reform lays out a compelling vision for building a post‑carbon future – and architects are not the only ones who will build it." Architectural Review (Online)
This book, the first by 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. 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.
Material Reform is available to order here.
PRESS
'In Material Reform, Material Cultures rethinks the cultures, systems, and infrastructures of how we make architecture.’ The Architect’s Newspaper (Online)
"[Material Reform] highlights possibilities for sustainable and future-proof building... appealing for a new way of looking at construction and the systems in which it is embedded." Stylepark (Online)
"Material Reform is a reminder that powerful things can come in small packages." A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books (Online)
"Through a series of essays, interwoven with photography by Jess Gough, architects Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam and George Massoud explain what is wrong with contemporary architecture, how it got there, and how it needs to change by rethinking our relationship with materials and the land from which we extract them." The Fifth Estate (Online)
"Material Reform shows that repairing current destructive practices is both an urgent and achievable aim to ensure a move towards a more equitable post-carbon future." London Society (Online)
"Material Reform calls for a more harmonious relationship between the built environment and the natural world." Azure Magazine (Online)
"Material Reform lays out a compelling vision for building a post‑carbon future – and architects are not the only ones who will build it." Architectural Review (Online)
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