Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity 1
5. Part I
6. 1. Causality and Meaning in the New Materialism 31
7. 2. Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudí and the Colliding Forces of Traditional and Innovative Construction 46
8. 3. Internalising Continuous Variation 68
9. 4. Paramateriality: Novel Biodigital Manifolds 88
10. 5. A Vital, Architectural Materialism: A House-person’s Escape from the Anthropocentric 111
11. 6. Performing Bitumen, Materialising Desiré 132
12. Part II
13. 7. Machine-oriented Architecture: Oikos and Ecology 161
14. 8. The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the Middle 176
15. Part III
16. 9. Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and Pollution 207
17. 10. The Intelligence of Computational Design 228
18. 11. Grothendieck Topoi: Architectural and Plastic Imagination beyond Material Number and Space 251
19. 12. Vicarious Architectonics, Strange Objects, Chance-bound: Michel Serres’s Exodus from Methodical Reason 267
20. 13. Transmythologies 293
21. Notes on Contributors 316
22. Index 319