Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity

pp 1-28

Part I

pp 29-30

1 - Causality and Meaning in the New Materialism

pp 31-45

2 - Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudí and the Colliding Forces of Traditional and Innovative Construction

pp 46-67

3 - Internalising Continuous Variation

pp 68-87

4 - Paramateriality: Novel Biodigital Manifolds

pp 88-110

5 - A Vital, Architectural Materialism: A House-person’s Escape from the Anthropocentric

pp 111-131

6 - Performing Bitumen, Materialising Desiré

pp 132-158

Part II

pp 159-160

7 - Machine-oriented Architecture: Oikos and Ecology

pp 161-175

8 - The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the Middle

pp 176-204

Part III

pp 205-206

9 - Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and Pollution

pp 207-227

10 - The Intelligence of Computational Design

pp 228-250

11 - Grothendieck Topoi: Architectural and Plastic Imagination Beyond Material Number and Space

pp 251-266

12 - Vicarious Architectonics, Strange Objects, Chance-bound: Michel Serres’s Exodus from Methodical Reason

pp 267-292

13 - Transmythologies

pp 293-315

Notes on Contributors

pp 316-318

Index

pp 319-328