Overview

Geology is the architecture of our planet and what we build has always been dependent on what the earth has already made. Yet in recent decades we, rather than the planet, have produced the geology of the future: millions of tonnes of concrete, plastic, brick, metal and other fabricated materials are quickly piling up to eventually become new strata. Can we recover a more equitable relationship to the earth? Providing a provocative and original take on the relationship between ecology and architecture, this book asks what architects do with, and what they might learn from, what the earth creates. From caves and crystals to volcanoes and earthquakes, The Matter of Architecture delves deep to mine a different way of building.

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""With originality and depth, Dobraszczyk explores the rich lodes, veins, and seams of interconnections between the Earth's own architecture, and how humans have used this to make their own no less extraordinary constructions from its rock resources. An engaging journey through ideas, imagination, and history as much as it is one through strata and the built environment, The Matter of Architecture will open new perspectives to its readers.""--Jan Zalasiewicz, author of ""The Planet in a Pebble""

With originality and depth, Paul Dobraszczyk explores the rich lodes, veins and seams of interconnections between the Earth’s own architecture, and how humans have used this to make their own no less extraordinary constructions from its rock resources. An engaging journey through ideas, imagination and history as much as it is one through strata and the built environment, The Matter of Architecture will open new perspectives to its readers. * Jan Zalasiewicz, author of The Planet in a Pebble *

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Paul Dobraszczyk is an architectural writer and a lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London. His books include Future Cities (2019) and Animal Architecture (2023), both published by Reaktion, as well as Architecture and Anarchism (2021).

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