Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Experimental Performances: Materials as Actors -- Chapter 1: Material Ontologies -- Essay: Approaching a Material History of Architecture -- Projects -- Hylozoic Ground, Philip Beesley, Rob Gorbet, and Rachel Armstrong -- Wanderings, Sean Lally -- Material Animation, Manuel Kretzer, Ruairi Glynn -- Breathing Bowels, Dustin Tobias -- SymbiosisO, Kärt Ojavee and Eszter Ozsvald -- Ectoplasmatic Library, Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos -- The Absent Body of Architecture, Andrew Lewthwaite -- Biospheres, Not Buildings, Zbigniew Oksiuta -- Q + A: Steve Pike with Sneha Patel -- Chapter 2: Material Elements -- Essay: New Material Compositions -- Q + A: Liat Margolis with Sneha Patel -- Projects -- Bloom, Doris Sung -- Nano-Textiles and Architectural Form, Klaudia Biala -- Blingcrete, Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann -- Latent Shift, Rashida Ng and Sneha Patel -- Biomanufactured Brick, Ginger Krieg Dosier -- Shape_Shift, Manuel Kretzer, Edyta Augustynowicz, Sofia Georgakopoulou, Stefanie Sixt, and Dino Rossi -- Nano Vent-Skin, Agustin Otegui Saiz -- Reef, Robert Ley and Joshua G. Stein -- Q + A: Omar Khan with Sneha Patel -- Chapter 3: Material Fabrications -- Essay: Making a Digital-Material Practice -- Q + A: Brandon Clifford, Wes Mcgee, and David Pigram with Sneha Patel -- Projects -- Unikabeton Prototype, Per Dombernowsky and Asbjørn Søndergaard -- Contested Boundaries, Joseph Choma -- Smocking: Pleated Surfaces, Kentaro Tsubaki -- Designed Disorder, Phillip Anzalone, Brigette Borders, and Kerri Henderson -- The Seat Slug, Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello -- Oxalis, Vincent Hui, Michael Lanctot, and Pierre-Alexandre Le Lay -- Pinch Wall, Jeremy Ficca and P. Zach Ali -- Tectonic Horizons, Joshua G. Stein -- Porous Ascend, Jacob Riiber.

Q + A: Patrick Harrop and Peter Hasdell with Sneha Patel -- Chapter 4: Material Behaviors -- Essay: Live Inputs: Variable Outputs -- Projects -- Reef, Aurélie Mossé, Guggi Kofod, and David Gauthier -- OpenHouse, Francis Bitonti and Brian Osborn -- Wind Screen, Meejin Yoon and Eric Höweler -- The 'Envirogrammic' Response, Mark Smout and Laura Allen -- Actuated Matter, Karmen Franinovic, Manuel Kretzer, Daniel Bisig, Florian Wille, Mathias Gmachl, and Rachel Wingfi eld -- Beyond the New Materialism, Michael Silver -- Adaptive Fa[ca]de, Marilena Skavara -- The Stratus Project, Geoffrey Thün and Kathy Velikov -- Q + A: Shaun Murray with Sneha Patel -- Chapter 5: Material Futures -- Essay: Speculations of Future Materiality -- Contributing Authors -- Index -- Back Cover.