Process: Material and Representation in Architecture

Gail Peter Borden attended Rice University, simultaneously receiving Bachelor of Arts degrees (all cum laude) in fine arts, art history, and architecture. Upon graduation, he won the prestigious William Ward Watkins Traveling Fellowship, the AIA Certificate for Excellence, the Chillman Prize, and the John Swift Medal in Fine Arts. After receiving a Texas Architectural Foundation Scholarship, Professor Borden returned to Rice for his BARCH, also cum laude. He went on to Harvard University's Graduate School of Design to complete a postprofessional Masters of Architecture with distinction.In addition to holding a tenured position as associate professor at the University of Southern California, Borden is the architecture discipline head and director of the graduate architecture programs. As principal of Borden Partnership since 2002, his design work has won numerous recognitions including: the Architectural League Prize; the AIA Young Architect Award; Building Design and Construction magazine's “40 Under 40” award; and numerous AIA, ACSA, and RADA awards. Borden received artist-in-residence awards from the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas; the Atlantic Center for the Arts; the Borchard Fellowship; and the MacDowell Colony. His teaching has been recognized with an ACSA New Faculty Teaching Award as one of the top emerging architecture faculty. His first book, Material Precedent: The Typology of Modern Tectonics, published in 2010 (Wiley Press); his second, Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production, published in 2011 (Routledge) his third Principia: Architectural Principles of Material Form, published in 2013 (Pearson); and this book Process: Material and Representation in Architecture (Routledge) all focus on materiality.As an artist, theoretician, and practitioner, Professor Borden's research and practice focuses on the role of materiality and architecture in contemporary culture.

• Acknowledgements Preface Layout description Part 1: Point 1. Unit: UK Pavilion Shanghai - Heatherwick Studio, Shanghai, China 2. Aggregation: Gatehouse - Office dA, Beijing, China 3. Module: Maison Colonial - Jean Prouve, Africa/France 4. Network: de Young Museum - Herzog and de Meuron, California, USA Part 2: Line 5. Stick/Member: Jean Marie Tjibou Cultural Center – RPBW, Noumea, Indonesia 6. Grid: Faulk House - Peter Eisenman, New York, USA 7. Frame/Cage: US Pavilion at Expo 67 - Buckminster Fuller 8. Field Effect: Kimbell Art Museum - louis I. Kahn Part 3: Surface 9. Wall: Barcelona Pavilion - Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, Spain 10. Facet: Tel Aviv - Scott Cohen, Tel Aviv, Israel 11. Shell: Los Manantiales - Felix Candella, Mexico City, Mexico 12. Serial: Yokahama Terminal – FOA, Yokahama, Japan Part 4: Mass 13. Cast/Solid: Pantheon, Rome, Italy Postscript 14. Void: Tres Grand Bibliotheque - Rem Koolhaas, OMA, Paris, France 15. Inversion: Brother Claus Field Chapel - Peter Zumthor, Switzerland 16. Series: Monument to the Murdered Jews - Peter Eisenman Postscript Index