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Plastics now : on architecture's relationship to a continuously emerging material / Billie Faircloth.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015Description: xv, 392 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1138804509
  • 9781138804500
  • 1138804517
  • 9781138804517
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 691.92 23
LOC classification:
  • TA668 .F35 2015
Contents:
Prologue : How should we use plastics -- Introduction : Wrestling with the emergence of plastics -- 1. Defining plastics -- 2. Describing plastics -- 3. Plastics in building -- 4. All plastics, 1928-1973 -- 5. Why we use plastics the way that we do -- 6. Professing plastics -- Epilogue : Plastics and our agency.
Summary: "Plastics Now addresses one primary question: why do we build with plastics the way that we do? For decades, plastics have been described over and over again as "the future," yet we still do not know precisely what to do with them. Billie Faircloth argues that this inertia is due to plastics' indecipherability, which has prevented them from becoming fully known. The author tracks the process by which plastics became defined as a class of building materials. Drawing on original data from industry press, original timelines, hundreds of historical and contemporary images, advertisements dating to the 1940s, and technical data, this unconventional book explores the emergence of plastics as a building material and presents new findings. Plastics Now takes a provocative approach that calls on architects to participate in the redefinition of plastics for our time. This is essential reading for professional architects and architecture students to engage with our shared history with the plastics industry."--Cover.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue : How should we use plastics -- Introduction : Wrestling with the emergence of plastics -- 1. Defining plastics -- 2. Describing plastics -- 3. Plastics in building -- 4. All plastics, 1928-1973 -- 5. Why we use plastics the way that we do -- 6. Professing plastics -- Epilogue : Plastics and our agency.

"Plastics Now addresses one primary question: why do we build with plastics the way that we do? For decades, plastics have been described over and over again as "the future," yet we still do not know precisely what to do with them. Billie Faircloth argues that this inertia is due to plastics' indecipherability, which has prevented them from becoming fully known. The author tracks the process by which plastics became defined as a class of building materials. Drawing on original data from industry press, original timelines, hundreds of historical and contemporary images, advertisements dating to the 1940s, and technical data, this unconventional book explores the emergence of plastics as a building material and presents new findings. Plastics Now takes a provocative approach that calls on architects to participate in the redefinition of plastics for our time. This is essential reading for professional architects and architecture students to engage with our shared history with the plastics industry."--Cover.

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