Plastics Now
On Architecture’s Relationship to a Continuously Emerging Material
Seiten
2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-80451-7 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-80451-7 (ISBN)
Arguing that architects’ continued ignorance about plastics has prevented its use as a building material from becoming fully exploited, Billie Faircloth draws on a wide range of original data to explore its use and development. Essential reading.
Plastics Now addresses one primary question: why do we build with plastics the way that we do?
For decades, plastics have been described over and over again as "the future," yet we still do not know precisely what to do with them. Billie Faircloth argues that this inertia is due to plastics’ indecipherability, which has prevented them from becoming fully known.
The author tracks the process by which plastics became defined as a class of building materials. Drawing on original data from industry press, original timelines, hundreds of historical and contemporary images, advertisements dating to the 1940s, and technical data, this unconventional book explores the emergence of plastics as a building material and presents new findings.
Plastics Now takes a provocative approach that calls on architects to participate in the redefinition of plastics for our time. This is essential reading for professional architects and architecture students to engage with our shared history with the plastics industry.
Plastics Now addresses one primary question: why do we build with plastics the way that we do?
For decades, plastics have been described over and over again as "the future," yet we still do not know precisely what to do with them. Billie Faircloth argues that this inertia is due to plastics’ indecipherability, which has prevented them from becoming fully known.
The author tracks the process by which plastics became defined as a class of building materials. Drawing on original data from industry press, original timelines, hundreds of historical and contemporary images, advertisements dating to the 1940s, and technical data, this unconventional book explores the emergence of plastics as a building material and presents new findings.
Plastics Now takes a provocative approach that calls on architects to participate in the redefinition of plastics for our time. This is essential reading for professional architects and architecture students to engage with our shared history with the plastics industry.
Billie Faircloth is a practicing architect and partner at KieranTimberlake, where she leads transdisciplinary research, design, and problem-solving processes across fields including environmental management, chemical physics, materials science, and architecture. She fosters collaboration between trades, academies, and industries in order to define a relevant problem-solving boundary for the built environment.
Prologue: How Should We Use Plastics? Introduction A Method: How to Wrestle With the Emergence of Plastics 1. Defining Plastics 2. Describing Plastics 3. Plastics. In. Building. 4. All-Plastics 5. Prototyping with Plastics 6. Professing Plastics Epilogue Why We Use Plastics The Way That We Do. Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.7.2015 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 43 Line drawings, color; 390 Halftones, color |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 189 x 246 mm |
| Gewicht | 1133 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Architektur |
| Technik ► Bauwesen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-80451-7 / 1138804517 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-80451-7 / 9781138804517 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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