Materials Topics

In architecture, material, function, and form are three concepts that have always been discussed together. The relationship between material, function, and form, the influence of one on the other, which is more important, or which is compiled for the others, have been common themes in these discussions, and these are issues that will continue to be debated as long as the architectural profession is practiced.

According to current architectural agreements, it is impossible to prevent the total amount of material form from being distorted, regardless of the selected function in the building. Especially after the Industrial Revolution, advanced material technology, which can be equipped with increasing momentum, first reinforced concrete, then steel, glass, aluminum, multi-phase and phased properties, offered unlimited freedom to architects, especially in terms of material-dependent form features. In fact, as Salminen critically stated, many architects today first design a form and then go to an engineer to discuss how and with what material it can be built.

This book is a work consisting of summary articles written by expert pens, addressing architectural material and applications from architectural, regional, political, social, and artistic perspectives. As you read, you will have the opportunity to find very different perspectives on architecture and will meet artists and architects and their works. Among these artists and architects, you will encounter well-known names, as well as names you will hear for the first time. For these names, short trips on the internet will be new discoveries that can be saved in addition to the black and white and limited number of examples given in the book.

This valuable book hopes to take its place in your library as an eye-opening resource for all architects, whether academicians, architects, students, researchers, or artists, who are interested in it.