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Material Reform: Building for a Post-Carbon Future

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Summer Saud Islam
2023
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This acclaimed and bestselling book by design and research practice Material Cultures brings together a series of short, incisive essays on the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. Texts centred around key topics including resources, maintenance, agriculture, land use, and value are interwoven with a visual essay capturing the impact of industrialisation on landscapes at different scales. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the degradation of our landscapes. Here, Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam, and George Massoud explore how this has come about and how alternative systems, with holistic approaches to the built environment, might be formulated. Through text and visuals, concepts and practice, Material Reform 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. This new edition has been updated for 2024.

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Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Summer Saud Islam
2023
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Culture

vignette|414x414px|Pétroglyphes de la réserve de Gobustan, Azerbaïdjan datant de av. J.-C. indiquant une culture florissante. Ce site classé au patrimoine mondial de l'UNESCO est considéré comme de « valeur universelle exceptionnelle ». En philosophie, le mot culture désigne ce qui est différent de la nature. En sociologie, comme en éthologie, la culture est définie de façon plus étroite comme « ce qui est commun à un groupe d'individus » et comme « ce qui le soude », c'est-à-dire ce qui est appris, transmis, produit et inventé.

Culture matérielle

La culture matérielle est l'aspect physique de la culture dans les objets et l'architecture qui entourent les gens. Il inclut l'usage, la consommation, la création et le commerce d'objets, ainsi que les comportements, les normes et les rituels auxquels ces objets participent. Ce terme est couramment utilisé dans les études archéologiques et anthropologiques, en se concentrant particulièrement sur les preuves matérielles qui peuvent être attribuées à la culture, dans le passé ou dans le présent.

Alternative school

An alternative school is an educational establishment with a curriculum and methods that are nontraditional. Such schools offer a wide range of philosophies and teaching methods; some have strong political, scholarly, or philosophical orientations, while others are more ad hoc assemblies of teachers and students dissatisfied with some aspect of mainstream or traditional education.

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