Imaginaries on Matter - Tools, Materials, Origins,

promotes an innovative architectural research agenda that connects historical-cultural written research with digitally led material explorations.

The common thread is the notion of the material imagination, disclosed in the reverie, or material daydream, which challenges overly pragmatic or unreflective material choices within current architectural practice. In bonding our imagination directly with matter while also confronting new technologies, this book promotes strategies by which architects' and builders' future relations with materials can stay rooted within the deeper concerns of cultural meaning.

Imaginaries on Matter includes interviews with Aulets Arquitectes, Alibi Studio, Ensamble Studio, Geometria, Helen & Hard, KieranTimberlake, Supermanoeuvre, and Vandkunsten, as well as a postscript by David Leatherbarrow.

Edited by Thomas Bo Jensen, Carolina Dayer, Jonathan Foote

Thomas Bo Jensen (*1964) is a renowned Danish architect and Professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture. His research focuses on material history and architectural theory. As an author, he has published studies on the work of P. V. Jensen-Klint, Inger and Johannes Exner, as well as on the architectural oeuvre of Per Kirkeby.

With the volume Imaginaries on Matter - Tools, Materials, Origins, which he edited together with Carolina Dayer and Jonathan Foote, Thomas Bo Jensen introduces new impulses into architectural research. At its core stands the idea of "material imagination," understood as a creative and cultural historical orientation within the field of tension between digitality and material design.