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