The book Imaginaries on Matter. Tools, Materials, Origins, promotes an innovative architectural research agenda that connects historical-cultural written research with digitally led material explorations.

The common thread is the notion of the material imagination, disclosed in the reverie, or material daydream, which challenges overly pragmatic or unreflective material choices within current architectural practice. In bonding our imagination directly with matter while also confronting new technologies, this book promotes strategies by which architects’ and builders’ future relations with materials can stay rooted within the deeper concerns of cultural meaning.

Imaginaries on Matter includes interviews with Aulets Arquitectes, Alibi Studio, Ensamble Studio, Geometria, Helen & Hard, KieranTimberlake, Supermanoeuvre, and Vandkunsten, as well as a postscript by David Leatherbarrow.

If there ever was a time when materials didn’t matter to architects in their design work and theory, it is certainly not today. This book joins step with the increasing number of studies that see the building’s material reality as the site and soil of both productive creativity and rich experience – dethroning shape and style. In its layout and arguments, we see ways of restoring matter to its proper role and place in architecture: formative and native, also strangely familiar and silently understood.

The book Imaginaries on Matter. Tools, Materials, Origins, promotes an innovative architectural research agenda that connects historical-cultural written research with digitally led material explorations.

The common thread is the notion of the material imagination, disclosed in the reverie, or material daydream, which challenges overly pragmatic or unreflective material choices within current architectural practice. In bonding our imagination directly with matter while also confronting new technologies, this book promotes strategies by which architects’ and builders’ future relations with materials can stay rooted within the deeper concerns of cultural meaning.

Imaginaries on Matter includes interviews with Aulets Arquitectes, Alibi Studio, Ensamble Studio, Geometria, Helen & Hard, KieranTimberlake, Supermanoeuvre, and Vandkunsten, as well as a postscript by David Leatherbarrow.

If there ever was a time when materials didn’t matter to architects in their design work and theory, it is certainly not today. This book joins step with the increasing number of studies that see the building’s material reality as the site and soil of both productive creativity and rich experience – dethroning shape and style. In its layout and arguments, we see ways of restoring matter to its proper role and place in architecture: formative and native, also strangely familiar and silently understood.