The Material Imagination: Reveries on Architecture and Matter 建筑材料想象力：对建筑和物质的遐想

近年来，建筑话语以“物质诚实”，“形式发现”或“数字物质性”等熟悉的比喻为幌子，重新燃起了对物质性的兴趣。部分由于新材料的开发和设计师在制作建筑中的日益融合，实践和学术界近期出版物的激增探索了物质性的实用性及其作为建筑形式主角的作用。然而，随着物质实用主义的精神越来越受欢迎，关于建筑的诗意想象的理论继续消退。与在建筑实践中强调视觉形式设计相比，当建筑师“思考物质，梦想在其中，生活在其中，或者换句话说，实现想象”时，就会采用物质想象。作为建筑设计中正式方法的替代方案，本书通过对历史先例，建筑实践，文学资源，哲学分析和日常经验的考察，挑战读者重新思考建筑材料的遐想。关注物质作为建筑师想象力的前提，每一章都确定并以图形方式说明物质想象力如何定义建筑的概念前提。
In recent years architectural discourse has witnessed a renewed interest in materiality under the guise of such familiar tropes as 'material honesty,' 'form finding,' or 'digital materiality.' Motivated in part by the development of new materials and an increasing integration of designers in fabricating architecture, a proliferation of recent publications from both practice and academia explore the pragmatics of materiality and its role as a protagonist of architectural form. Yet, as the ethos of material pragmatism gains more popularity, theorizations about the poetic imagination of architecture continue to recede. Compared to an emphasis on the design of visual form in architectural practice, the material imagination is employed when the architect 'thinks matter, dreams in it, lives in it, or, in other words, materializes the imaginary.' As an alternative to a formal approach in architectural design, this book challenges readers to rethink the reverie of materials in architecture through an examination of historical precedent, architectural practice, literary sources, philosophical analyses and everyday experience. Focusing on matter as the premise of an architect's imagination, each chapter identifies and graphically illustrates how material imagination defines the conceptual premises for making architecture.