TY - BOOK ID - 37087344 TI - Plastics now : on architecture's relationship to a continuously emerging material PY - 2015 SN - 9781138804500 9781138804517 1138804509 1138804517 PB - New York : Routledge, DB - UniCat KW - Plastics in building. KW - Architecture. KW - Constructions en matières plastiques KW - Matières plastiques dans la construction KW - Plastics in building KW - Architecture KW - 691.17 KW - Bouwmaterialen ; kunststoffen ; plastic KW - Architecture, Western (Western countries) KW - Building design KW - Buildings KW - Construction KW - Western architecture (Western countries) KW - Art KW - Building KW - Plastic building materials KW - Building materials KW - Plastics KW - Building plastics industry KW - Bouwmaterialen ; kunststoffen KW - Design and construction KW - Constructions en matières plastiques. KW - Matières plastiques dans la construction. KW - Architecture, Primitive KW - Plastique KW - Constructions en matières plastiques. KW - Matières plastiques dans la construction. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:37087344 AB - "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. ER -