The Materials Book
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Introduction: The Matter of Construction: Systemic Overhaul or Tweaking the Status Quo? – Marc Angélil & Cary Siress
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22 Propositions for Re-materializing Construction – Edited by Sarah Nichols
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1 - “How Much Does Your Building Weigh, Mr. Foster?”
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2 - Know Your Materials
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3 - Do Not Forget CO2
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4 - Produce Leaner
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5 - Supply Better
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6 - What Is the Labor Cost?
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7 - Is the Price Right?
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8 - Build Local Material Industries
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9 - Mine the City
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10 - Maintain or Renew, Reuse or Recycle?
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11 - Designing for Nontoxicity: “Could I Eat Your Furniture, IKEA?”
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12 - Simplify Material Labels
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13 - Cross Loops
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14 - Create Building-Component
Exchanges
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15 - Imagine a World without Waste
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16 - Match Use Span
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17 - Design for Disassembly
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18 - Never Demolish, Always Transform
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19 - Rightsize
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20 - Embed Know-How
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21 - Make It Desirable
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22 - “If Less Is More, Maybe Nothing Is Everything”
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Propositions 23–37
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Talks on Materials
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Make Do – Anne Lacaton
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Sustainability Triad: Three Timber Buildings – Christine Binswanger
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Place, Nature, Energy, Recycling, Materiality – Lord Norman Foster
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Harvesting Materials in a World of Finite Resources – Laila Iskandar
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Changing Paradigms: Materials for a World Not Yet Built
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Build More with Less: How to Create the Future without Destroying the World – Werner Sobek
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Cultivated Building Materials: The Fourth Industrial Revolution? – Dirk Hebel & Felix Heisel
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Mushroom Materials Named under the Sun – Phil Ross
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Reuse and Recycling: Materializing a Circular Construction – Felix Heisel
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Reuse Economy – Maarten Gielen
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Paradigm Shift: The City of 1,000 Tanks, Chennai – Eva Pfannes
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Shifting the Flows, Pulling the Strings: Stocks, Flows, and Their Dynamics
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Beyond Circularity – Marilyne Andersen & Guillaume Habert
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How the Circular Economy Can Lead to Carbon Neutrality – Serge Salat
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Enhancing Livability through Resource Efficiency: An Urban Metabolism Study in Cairo – Heba Allah Essam E Khalil
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Toward Urban Dematerialization: Governance for the Urban Commons – Mark Swilling
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How Much Does Your Building (or Its Corresponding Infrastructure) Weigh? – Stefanie Weidner
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Cities as Ecosystems and Buildings as Living Organisms – Christoph Küffer
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From Manual to Digital and Vice Versa: Digitization, Labor, and Construction
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Imposing Challenges, Disruptive Changes: Rethinking the Floor Slab – Philippe Block, Cristián Calvo Barentin, Francesco Ranaudo & Noelle Paulson
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Pizza and Dirt in Uganda: A Student-Led Project Proves the Viability of Rammed-Earth Construction – Achilles Ahimbisibwe
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Building Climate: From Mechanical to Material – Arno Schlueter
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Designing for Natural Ventilation: Climate, Architecture, System – Alpha Yacob Arsano
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Rebuilding after Disaster: Children’s Recreational Center in Juchitán, Oaxaca – Loreta Castro Reguera
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KnitCrete: Building in Concrete with a Stay-in-Place Knitted Fabric Formwork – Mariana Popescu, Matthias Rippmann, Tom Van Mele & Philippe Block
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Catch-22: Material Needs versus Material Impact
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MaGIC: Marginal Gains in Construction – John Orr
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From India: Three Lessons in Sustainable Construction – Soumen Maity
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Cement and Concrete Materials Science and Engineering Education in Africa: Opportunities for Development – Yunus Ballim
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Concrete as a Socio-technical Process – Elise Berodier
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Urbanism and the Technosphere – Albert Pope
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Building to Cool the Climate: The New Carbon Architecture – Bruce King
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Epilogue: Standing on a Thin Arch: Incremental versus Radical Change – Simon Upton
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A Collection of Building Components and Materials – Compiled by Something Fantastic
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Use What's Already There
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Expand Your Horizons
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An Ur-material Reconsidered
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Bring On the Bamboo
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Embrace the Rubble
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Cheap, Recyclable Facades
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Air-Freshening Tiles
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Minimize the Stuff You Use
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A Nineteenth-Century Marvel, Revived
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Be Adaptable
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A Transparent Solution
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Invasive Plant, Innovative Aggregate
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A Greener Cement
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313 |
Slow Down and Sip the Lemonade
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Optimize at the Factory
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Building with Boulders
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Love Your Local Quarry
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Don't Forget the Lefovers
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Overhead Steel
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A Powerful Facade
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Making Timber Great Again
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Bring the Outside In
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A Yellower Shade of Pale
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Reconsidering a Classic Shape
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Push Back against the Wind
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Strength through Diversity
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Going Tubular
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Iron That Grows in the Garden
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Replacing Walls with Wire
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A Careful Choice of Bricks
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Marble Made of Yogurt Pots
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Multispecies Architecture
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White-Line Fever
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No Need for Cooking
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Renovate Rather than Raze
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Green Doesn't Have to Be Expensive
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The Secret of the Garden
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No Mortar? No Worries
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Going Green, Hold the Earth Tones
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From Waste to Walls
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Cover the Balcony
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Spread the Load
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Don't Overcook the Bricks
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Build with Mushrooms
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Frescos for the Modern Era
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Holy Concrete!
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Be Reasonable
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Easy on the Ears
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Embrace the Breeze
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Call the Local Tile Maker
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A Smaller Toilet
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Screw It, Don't Glue It
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The Power of Nothing
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Donor Acknowledgement
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387 |
Contributor Biographies
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388 |
Image Credits
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398 |
Colophon
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400 |