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IMMATERIAL ARCHITECTURE Jonathan Hill Routledge ISBN 0-415-36342-1 (pbk) Can architecture be regarded merely as a composite of its materials? Is a building only what it is made of, as opposed to the architect’s decisive interplay of space and volume? If the three little pigs had built invisible houses of motion-sensor laser guns, would the big bad wolf have been tricked into dashing at them, and end up pulverised into smithereens before he could even huff and puff? Immaterial Architecture questions the material in architecture, and what are our oft-held ideas of conventional materiality. No, it does not take the stance of recycling unconventional materials in building, nor that we rethink the use of materials in the building fabric. Rather, it highlights a foreign realm of materials that, surprisingly, do make other architectures as insidiously as we strain to reject its rational.

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by hann from re:ACT Asymptote's latest, the Penang Global City Centre. Pretty awesome, even if it seems rather no-holds-barred in its curving and torquing and faceting - such nice proportions and, well, (quite literally) asymptotic towers. I could perhaps be a little more critical and go, ah, purely stylistic, an abstraction of Madam White Snake's two dearest pets perhaps, doesn't seem to take Penangite 'character' into account, or a four-way Calatrava / Libeskind / Hadid / Diller-Scofidio hybrid, but this has really won me over head over heels.

ACTIONS OF ARCHITECTURE Architects and Creative Users Jonathan Hill Routledge ISBN 0-415-29043-0 (pbk) If you are one to be drawn to innovative and alternative strains of architectural thought, this book will whet your intellect with its multi-disciplinary approach to understanding architectural design. Drawing on the text ‘The Death of the Author’ by French literary critic Roland Barthes, Actions of Architecture is inspired by Barthes’s argument for a writer who is aware of the creativity of the reader. This approach compares the relations between the author and reader and the artist and viewer, thus informing us on the relations between the architect and user.