I've mentioned a number of texts that have, over the years, proved either inspirational or invaluable. I realized today that I've not included "Immaterial / Ultramaterial" from Harvard/George Braziller, Inc.
After working with a variety of commonplace materials over the last few months, the following quote summed up what I've been working with. Marco Steinberg, in the "surface" section, says "Construction-related materials often have latent possibilities that exist well beyond the uses for which they were created. Usually generated in response to quantitative criteria, these materials tent to have significant (though often unsuspected) potential for innovation and progress".
In many cases, it is this unsuspected potential that I seek.
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