中文简介：

本书是设计研究事务所Material Cultures的**本书，汇集了一系列的短文和对话，探索了塑造建筑行业的文化、系统和基础设施，以及它所培养的破坏性生态。主导当代建筑的建筑实践植根于对人的剥削和对景观的破坏。在这里，Paloma Gormley、Summer Islam和George Massoud探讨了这种情况是如何产生的，以及如何制定替代系统，对建筑环境采取全面的方法。

本书提出了一系列具有指导性和挑战性的观点，直接借鉴了设计研究事务所Material Cultures在工作中遇到的对话和紧张关系。文章围绕关键概念，包括劳动、时间、维护、语言、土地和触觉等，与一篇讲述了在不同规模的经验和解决方案下改变工业化景观的过程的视觉文章交织在一起，重新思考了我们与材料、土地和发展的关系，以及它们之间的所有关键交汇点。

英文简介：

This book, the first by the design and research practice Material Cultures, assembles a series of short essays and conversations exploring the cultures, systems, and infrastructures that shape the architectural industry and the destructive ecologies it fosters. The building practices dominating contemporary architecture are rooted in the exploitation of people and the degradation of our landscapes. Here, Paloma Gormley, Summer Islam, and George Massoud explore how this has come about and how alternative systems, with holistic approaches to the built environment, might be formulated.

Material Reform presents a set of instructive and challenging perspectives drawing directly on the dialogues and tensions Material Cultures encounter in their ongoing work. Texts centred around key concepts including labour, time, maintenance, language, land, and touch are interwoven with a visual essay reckoning with the processes that have transformed industrialized landscapes at different scales of experience and resolution. Through text and visuals, concepts and practice, this book explores how developing a direct relationship with materials can help us find new languages with the potential to supersede those we have inherited from a narrow lineage of authors. These discursive threads come together to form a vital sourcebook for rethinking our relationships to materials, land, and development, in all their crucial intersections.