a+t architecture publishers

In this third issue of the Frugality series -a critical response to the demands of the environmental agenda- component hunting, urban mining, and biosourced materials- challenge the notion of architecture as a finite object, advancing instead a material ethic in which design becomes an act of negotiation, translation, and ecological and economic commitment.

In the contemporary context, concepts such as component hunting, urban mining, and bio-sourced materials do not merely de­note technical strategies. Rather, they articulate ways of reconfiguring the relationship between architecture, materiality, and productive processes.