Now available in paperback, 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, colour, and surface. Together, all these characteristics ingeniously contribute to the vitality of the architecture surrounding them.

Author Biography

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, Contemporary World Architects, Architecture in Detail, and Art and Architecture. Mark Pasnick works for Machado and Silvetti Associates in Boston, where he became Associate in 2000. He regularly teaches design studios and history courses at Northeastern University and was member of the editorial staff of Assemblage from 1995 through 2000. His most recent writing appears in Architectural Record and the Cornell Journal of Architecture. Both live in Massachusetts, USA. 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.