Re-Assemblies

“The first step towards addressing the political implications of industrialization is to formulate the problem of architecture's material history. To think about materials implies a fundamental re-assessment of their existing contexts. Associations accorded to a material and its standardized, designated use can become the means to different ends. A sheet product may simply be flipped over to produce a material readymade, a material's context of reception may be repositioned, or its composition profoundly altered at the molecular level. The invention of such strategies of material misuse in architecture offers the potential to remake the relations between material form, associations and use.” 

- Sheila Kennedy, “Material Presence” (2001)