Written by a pioneer in the field, this is the first book to provide an overview of the theory and practice of experimental architecture. Ideal for students and researchers wishing to engage in experimental, practice-based architectural research.

1. Architecture and Research Rachel Armstrong 1.1 Experimental Architecture Reader 1.2 Architecture as Discipline 1.3 Neoliberalism as Worldview 1.4 Ways of Knowing 1.5 Research 1.6 Nature of Architectural Research 1.7 Evaluation 1.8 Impact 1.9 Outreach 1.10 Research Environment 1.11 Research Context 1.12 Economic Importance of Architectural Research 1.13 Principles of Architectural Research: A "wicked" discipline 1.13.1 Personal Exploration 1.13.2 Academic Environment 1.13.3 Research and Education 1.13.4 Professional Practice 2. Experimental Architecture Rachel Armstrong 2.1 Designing Change 2.2 Experiments versus "Wicked" Experiments 2.3 Introducing Experimental Architecture 2.4 Ethics 2.5 Research Principles of Experimental Architecture 2.5.1 The Role of Apparatuses 2.5.2 Sorting, Ordering and Valuing 2.5.3 Laboratory Environments 2.5.4 Monstering 2.5.5 Question-making 2.6 Towards an Ecological Architecture 2.6.1 The Houme 3. Architectural Experiments 3.1 Short Experiments 3.1.1 Harvested Sunlight: An experiment with a novel photoautotrophic biomaterial Simon Park and Victoria Geaney 3.1.2 SuperTree Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto 3.1.3 Co-Occupancy Joyce Hwang 3.1.4 PolyBrick 3.0: DNA glaze and digital ceramics Jenny Sabin 3.1.5 Graphene Architecture: Integrated intelligence in soft responsive skins Areti Markopoulou 3.1.6 High-Resolution Architecture Designed/Built by Humans/AI/Robots Alisa Andrasek 3.1.7 Tempietto on Mylar T+E+A+M 3.018 Nightly Catie Newell 3.2 Long Experiments 3.2.1 Evolving, Growing, and Gardening Cyber-physical Systems Susan Stepney and colleagues 3.2.2 About the Architecture of the Human Mind: A mathematical experiment Françoise Chatelin 3.2.3 Nomadic Hamlet 2.0: Testing place and video space for audiences Esther M. Armstrong and Dick Straker 3.2.4 Exaptive Design: Radical co-authorship as method Simone Ferracina 3.2.5 The Cloud Chamber Andrew Ballantyne 3.2.6 The Third Thing Rolf Hughes 4. Afterword Rachel Armstrong