Material, Making and Place 2027

A playbook for resource-conscious architecture

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Beskrivning

Architecture is being remade – crafted from local knowledge, materials and place.At a moment of environmental and social strain, Material, Making and Place explores how architects are developing new ways to build that are both grounded and inventive.Through essays, interviews with leading practitioners and closely examined case studies, it revisits fundamental questions: how buildings are made, how knowledge circulates and how practice is changing.Sustainability here is not a checklist. It grows from the realities of place – its resources, ecologies, skills and communities.Across housing, civic buildings and experimental structures, the book traces projects from the UK, Europe, Asia and beyond. Stone, timber and earth reappear as raw material for new thinking.Old skills meet new tools. Craft meets digital systems. Collaboration reshapes construction.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-10-01
Mått:210 x 250 x 11 mm
Vikt:900 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:208
Förlag:RIBA Publishing
ISBN:9781915722911

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Donn Holohan and Elspeth Lee are co-founders of Superposition, an architecture and research studio operating between Ireland and Hong Kong. Their work integrates teaching, research, and practice, combining vernacular methods with digital tools to produce architecture rooted in specific social, material, and environmental contexts.

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Foreword: Drawing Inspiration by John TuomeyPrefaceChapter 1: Cultivating Architecture BioregionalismConvivialityDemonstratorsCase Studies and Conversations: Wolves Lane Centre, London, UK; Conversation with Paloma Gormely (Material Cultures); Magasin Électrique, Arles, France; Conversation with Joe Halligan & Maria Lisogorskaya (Assemble); Conversation with Daniel Bell (Atelier LUMA); Conversation with Laurens Bekemans & Ken De Cooman (Bc A/S/M);A Note on EarthlinessChapter 2: Material Systems Networks Not SilosStone and WoodPragmatismCompromises and ContingenciesCase Studies and Conversations: Clerkenwell Close, London, UK; Conversation with Amin Taha and Nerissa Yeung (Groupwork); House on Classical Elements, Akiya, Japan; Conversation with Mio Tsuneyama (Studio mnm); Quatre-Cheminées, Paris, France; Conversation with Emmanuelle Déchelette and Philibert Déchelette (Déchelette Architecture)Chapter 3: Spaces for Error Destabilising ErrorAlternatives to the Error FrameworkToleranceUnlearningCase Studies and Conversations:Hooke Park, Dorset, UK; Conversation with Kate Davies and Emmanuel Vercruysse; STIK Pavilion, Tokyo, Japan; Conversation with Yusuke Obuchi (University of Tokyo); Material Gesture; Conversation with Anne Holtrup (Studio Anne Holtrop)Chapter 4: Policy Hacking Operating UpstreamShifting CultureDesigning with RegulationLegitimising ReuseShaping ConditionsCase Studies and Conversations:The Ger Plug-In 1.0, The Ger Innovation Hub, and The Ger Plug-In 3.0, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia; Conversation with Joshua Bolchover (District Development Unit); Research Houses Bad Aibling, Munich, Germany; Conversation with Florian Nagler (Florian Nagler Architekten); The Lanterns, Kandy, Sri Lanka; Conversation with Paolo Tombesi (FAR)Afterword: Is There a Future for Architecture? by Jan Boelen AcknowledgementsReferencesImage CreditsAbout the Authors