Materials

Materials is the first book in the Architecture in Detail series, which examines a wide spectrum of architectural palettes from traditional products used innovatively to the testing of newer substances and from elegant applications of inelegant materials to experimentation with unconventional construction practices. Each photograph demonstrates the capacity of details to be mesmerizing expressions of quality and craft through techniques of pattern, texture, color, and surface. Together, all these characteristics ingeniously contribute to the vitality of the architecture surrounding them. Author Biography:Mark Pasnik is an associate at the Boston architecture firm Machado and Silvetti Associates. He teaches regularly at Northeastern University and in a contributor to many architectural magazines including Architectural Record and Cornell Journal of Architecture. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Oscar Riera Ojeda is an editor and designer who practices worldwide from his Boston and New York offices. He is vice-director of the Spanish magazine Casas Internacional and is the creator of a number of architectural books for Rockport Publishers, including the Single Building series, Ten Houses series, Contemporary World Architects series, Architecture in Detail series, and Art and Architecture. He lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. Paul Warchol's work has been published in magazines around the world. He has recently been the focus of a series of books on architecture and design by Italian publisher Edizione L'Archivolto. He had been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad in both group and one-man exhibitions. He lives and works in New York City.