Crossings Between the Proximate and Remote

Primitive Materiality: A Projective History of a Wall

Fall Conference Proceedings

Author(s): Benjamin Pollak

Primitive materiality is a scholarly exploration on buildingmaterials and the relationship with spatial conceptand environment. It looks into a tectonic past wherematerials where not standard veneers or finishes andwhere integral to the conception of an architecturalproject. The author uses Eero Saarinen’s Morse andStiles College at Yale University as a case study.

Volume Editors
Urs Peter Flueckiger & Victoria McReynolds

ISBN
978-1-944214-16-6