Reading #3

This weeks reading is:

Lynn, Greg. "The Folded, the Pliant and the Supple." Folds, Bodies & Blobs: Collected Essays. Bruxelles: La Lettre Volee, 1998. 109-34. Print.

Lynn, Greg. "Animate Form." Animate Form. New York: Princeton Architectural, 1999. 8-43. Print. 

If you're strapped for time it would be acceptable to read only one or the other. As long as you promise to follow-up when you have the time.

Featured Project: StalacTile

I forgot to show you a project in class this week so, here you go...

http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=100296_0_23_24_M

Z, these are PETG plastic tiles...

the work was done by students at Washington University at St. Louis.

Dimensions Blog!

Follow the Dimensions blog authored by RU alumni (and past Material Tectonics students) Ed Krafcik, Drew Siglin and Ben Heller.

http://dimpara.blogspot.com/

Reading #2

The reading for this week has been up on the R drive since last Friday and is now also on Sakai:

 Gregotti, Vittorio. "The Exercise of Detailing." Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: an Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995. Ed. Kate Nesbitt. New York: Princeton Architectural, 1996. 494-97. Print.

Frascari, Marco. "The Tell Tale Detail." Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: an Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995. Ed. Kate Nesbitt. New York: Princeton Architectural, 1996. 498-515. Print. 

                        Frampton, Kenneth. "Rappel a L'ordre, The Case for the Tectonic." Ed. Kate Nesbitt. Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: an Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965 - 1995. New York: Princeton Architectural, 1996. 516-28. Print

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.