Performative Materials in Architecture and Design

Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel are assistant professors of architecture at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University. Together they cofounded SEAMLab, a nonprofit think tank dedicated to research and the dissemination of design-based knowledge focused on materiality.

• Foreword – Philip BeesleyPreface – Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel Introduction: Experimental Performances: Materials as Actors – Rashida Ng Chapter 1: Material Ontologies Essay: Approaching a Material History of Architecture – Jason Crow Projects Hylozoic Ground, Philip Beesley, Rob Gorbet, and Rachel Armstrong  Wanderings, Sean Lally Material Animation, Manuel Kretzer and Ruairi Glynn Breathing Bowels, Dustin Tobias SymbiosisO, Kärt Ojavee and Eszter Ozsvald Ectoplasmatic Library, Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos The Absent Body of Architecture, Andrew Lewthwaite Biospheres, Not Buildings, Zbigniew Oksiuta Q + A: Steve Pike with Sneha Patel Chapter 2: Material ElementsEssay: New Material Compositions – Martina DeckerQ + A: Liat Margolis  with Sneha PatelProjectsBloom, Doris SungNano-Textiles and Architectural Form, Klaudia Biala Blingcrete, Thorsten Klooster and Heike KlussmannLatent Shift, Rashida Ng and Sneha PatelBiomanufactured Brick, Ginger Krieg DosierShape_Shift, Manuel Kretzer, Edyta Augustynowicz, SofiaGeorgakopoulou, Stefanie Sixt, and Dino RossiNano Vent-Skin, Agustin Otegui SaizReef, Robert Ley and Joshua G. SteinQ + A: Omar Khan with Sneha PatelChapter 3: Material FabricationsEssay: Making a Digital-Material Practice – Phil Ayres, Martin Tamke, and Mette Ramsgard ThomsenQ + A: Brandon Cliff ord, Wes Mcgee, and David Pigram with Sneha PatelProjectsUnikabeton Prototype, Per Dombernowsky and Asbjørn SøndergaardContested Boundaries, Joseph ChomaSmocking: Pleated Surfaces, Kentaro TsubakiDesigned Disorder, Phillip Anzalone, Brigette Borders, and Kerri HendersonThe Seat Slug, Ronald Rael and Virginia San FratelloOxalis, Vincent Hui, Michael Lanctot, and Pierre-Alexandre Le LayPinch Wall, Jeremy Ficca and P. Zach AliTectonic Horizons, Joshua G. Stein Porous Ascend, Jacob RiiberQ + A: Patrick Harrop and Peter Hasdell with Sneha PatelChapter 4: Material BehaviorsEssay: Live Inputs: Variable Outputs – Nataly GattegnoProjectsReef, Aurélie Mossé, Guggi Kofod, and David Gauthier OpenHouse, Francis Bitonti and Brian OsbornWind Screen, Meejin Yoon and Eric HöwelerThe ‘Envirogrammic’ Response, Mark Smout and Laura AllenActuated Matter, Karmen Franinovic, Manuel Kretzer, Daniel Bisig, Florian Wille, Mathias Gmachl, and Rachel WingfieldBeyond the New Materialism, Michael SilverAdaptive Fa[ca]de, Marilena SkavaraThe Stratus Project, Geoff rey Thün and Kathy VelikovQ + A: Shaun Murray with Sneha PatelChapter 5: Material FuturesEssay: Speculations of Future Materiality – Rashida Ng