Patkau Architects: Material Operations

By Patkau Architects

Patkau Architects is known for creating innovative, sculptural buildings that convey artistic expression through the purposeful use of materials. Patkau Architects: Material Operations reveals the architectural philosophy and techniques that drive the firm's extraordinary constructions.

Working directly with materials--bending them, breaking them, feeling their texture, mass, and strength--provides a depth of understanding that visual observation alone cannot. The firm's creations demonstrate how attending to and playing with specific materials yields a refreshed and expanded perspective on the possible. Patkau Architects: Material Operations investigates how the qualities of commonly available construction materials and unconventional techniques produce buildable, expressive forms with inherent structural capacities and evocative identities.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616895705
• ISBN13: 9781616895709
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.0" x 10.1"