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Issue 4:2

Matter

Materials – and their alchemical transformations through construction – have long been the subject of intense study and thoughtful deliberation by practitioners and researchers. This issue asks: How are current material investigations responding to rapid climate change and the imperative for sustainability? What methodologies are researchers using to explore and test materials? How are designers, material scientists, and others engaging in material innovation, developing patents, and influencing business practices? How are emergent materials and cyber-physical processes altering the arc of architecture and design?

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4.2
Matter(s)
The primordial analog world. The novel digital world. Two canonical poles in a quintessential dualism. Like the...
Matter(s)
4.2
What's the Matter?
This issue of Technology | Architecture + Design began in one world and will be published in another. Two major...
What's the Matter?
4.2
Interview with Craig Curtis: Industrialized Construction at Katerra
Katerra’s stated goal is to revolutionize, through the application of advanced technologies, an AEC industry...
Interview with Craig Curtis: Industrialized Construction at Katerra
4.2
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental Impacts of Cross-Laminated Timber
With advances in wood product development and building code acceptance, mass timber structural systems have become...
Seeing the Forest and the Trees: Environmental Impacts of Cross-Laminated Timber
4.2
Breathing is Spatial
As a child, I had a bad case of asthma. Breathing, or rather the inability to breathe, was ever present in my childhood....
Breathing is Spatial
4.2
Evolving Vernacular: Reinventing Rammed Earth in the Context of Twenty-First Century Seismic Regulation
The vernacular architecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in southeast France is dominated by unstabilized...
Evolving Vernacular: Reinventing Rammed Earth in the Context of Twenty-First Century Seismic Regulation