Steven Holl arguing about plastic buildings? This conference got WILD.
"Permanent Change" looks at the history and development of plastic within the architectural world. Capturing both a series of lectures and a panel with prominent names such as Steven Holl, Beatriz Colomina and Werner Sobek, this documentation observes detailed examples and lively debates regarding the popularization of plastic as a construction material. Addressing a number of contributing factors including design, engineering and form, the participants of the conference present a wide range of theories, analyses and predictions pertaining to plastics as an architectural material.
Direction
Michael Blackwood lets architects ramble gloriously unfiltered.
Writing
Academic shade thrown with devastating politeness.
Director
Michael Blackwood
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 2011 conference captures architecture's brief love affair with plastics before sustainability panic fully set in. The optimism feels almost quaint now.
Michael Blackwood spent decades documenting architecture's most obsessive minds; this is basically his Avengers assemble moment for material nerds.
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