Material Cultures : Material Reform. Building for a Post-Carbon Future

"Reform, resources, soil, clay, extraction, supply chains, value, maintenance, demolition, timber, technification, quantification, oil vernacular, stone, carbon, factories, agriculture, land use, straw."--Page one of the cover.

This book, the first by Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. Through text and visuals, concepts and practice, this book explores how developing a direct relationship with materials can help us find new languages with the potential to supersede those we have inherited from a narrow lineage of authors. These discursive threads come together to form a vital sourcebook for rethinking our relationships to materials, land, and development, in all their crucial intersections.