Featured Project: Ball State I.M.A.D.E exhibition

Here is a link to the I.M.A.D.E. exhibition that we saw in Friday. The work was done at Ball State with the help of our friends at CASE.

http://designreform.net/2009/08/ball-state-universitys-imade-exhibition/

http://www.i-m-a-d-e.org/

http://www.case-inc.com/

Form, Growth, Behavior: The Making of P_Wall

Saw this before, thought it deserved to be shared.

Andrew Kudless discusses P_Wall, a 45-foot-long wall installation composed of undulating, bulbous forms. Kudless demonstrates the techniques used to create the work at his design studio, Matsys, and describes the ways its form mirrors the human body.

http://rulastudent.blogspot.com/2011/01/matsys.html

Reading #1

Our first reading is from Meg Calkin's: 

Calkins, Meg. "Materials for Sustainable Sites Defined." Materials for Sustainable Sites: a Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection, and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009. 1-12. Print.

Calkins, Meg. "Background: Inputs, Outputs, and Impacts of Construction Materials." Materials for Sustainable Sites: a Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection, and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009. 13-52. Print. 

Please post your thoughts and questions as comments to this post by Thursday at midnight.

Welcome to MatTec

This is the course blog for Material Tectonics in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University. We'll use the site as a general discussion forum. Please feel free to post relevant items as you come across them.

In addition, we will use this blog as a forum for discussing our assigned readings. Each week I will create a post and ask you to respond with thoughts about that weeks reading(s). Please submit your thoughts as comments to my original post.