Plastics now : on architecture's relationship to a continously emerging material

Author

• Faircloth, Billie

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon: Rouledge, 2015

Language

English

ISBN

9781138804517

Series

Subject(s)

• ARCHITECTURE
• PLASTICS IN BUILDING

Notes

. Bibliography: p. 374-386 . Index: p. 390-392

Abstract

"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."--Cover.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xv, 392 p.

Dimension

25 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

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: Plastic and our agency
Index

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