UC Berkeley's graduate architectural journal
Issue 7: Material
Issue 7: Material
Issue 7 of Room One Thousand takes a materialist approach to the material of architecture, examining how the stuff architecture determines its wider position and culture. Through stories, essays, games, and design proposals the contributors to Material look closely at the building blocks of architecture analyzing the impact and emergent properties of structure fires, model materials, archi-facts, rubble, rendering softwares, democratic firm structures and beyond...
Contents: Drawing In-Painting, Gabriel Fries-Briggs. Insulation and Ideology: Politicizing the Technical Space of Architecture, Keefer Dunn. A Ramble with Assemble, Joe Halligan with RM1000. Child-ish Architecture, Soo Han & Sun Kwon. Pebble Dash, Ian Erickson & Henry Weikel. Material Flows, Laurence Crouzet. Making Earth Bricks, Tom Devore with RM1000. The Five Abstractions, Andrew Atwood with RM1000. A Working Glossary, Dylan Krueger. Unseen Images of the Farnsworth House, Michelle Deng. Escape Clause, Iman Ansari. A Wiki-Dérive, Nicholas de Monchaux & Geoff Manaugh with RM1000. Factory of Ecology, Sergio Lopez-Pineiro. Abandoned House, Alberto Sanchez. Rubble Archive, Leen Katrib.