The Publication
The publication Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and
Design accompanies and shares a name with the exhibition, off ering a
companion space that delves into the research
shown in the galleries. The publication is organized
around the same five thematic material acts of the exhibition: Animating,
Disassembling, Feeding, Re-fusing, and Stitching.
Content formats
include commissioned essays, photography, how-to-guides, and
conversations featuring exn the exhibition’s scope. 
A limited number of special-edition catalog pulications will include an exclusive box of material samples. This unique addition allows readers to physically experience some of the experimental materials featured in the exhibition, o ering a tangible connection to the work and deepening their understanding of contemporary material practices.
Material Acts: Book Launch and Presentations
LOS ANGELES
Friday, Nov. 22, 2024
6:30 PM — 8:00 PM
Craft Contemporary
NEW YORK
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025
6PM—8PM
e-flux
Friday, Nov. 22, 2024—Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles
An evening celebrating the the publication Material Acts: Experimentation in Architecture and Design, conceived as a companion piece to the exhibition on view at Craft Contemporary (until January 5, 2025). Join book editors Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, and contributors and guests Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Anupama Kundoo, Matthias Kohler, Ben Loescher, Katie MacDonald, Meredith Miller, and others for a preview of the catalogue.
Friday, Feb. 14, 2025—Columbia University
The Library is Open is a lunchtime series featuring recently published works and their authors, curated by Bart-Jan Polman, Director of Exhibitions and Public Programming and Curator of the Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery at Columbia GSAPP. Hosted in a central location in Avery Hall, the LiO series honors GSAPP’s historical connection to Avery Library, the world’s largest Architecture library.
Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025—e-flux, Brooklyn
Join book editors Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu, with contributors Lola Ben-Alons, Felecia Davis, Mae-Ling Lokko, and Elsa Maki for a conversation on changing definitions of architectural knowledge, and contemporary attitudes towards terms such as “nature,” “experimentation,” and “material”.
Material Acts with e-flux Architecture
Material Acts is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and Craft Contemporary within the context of the eponymous exhibition, curated by Kate Yeh Chiu and Jia Yi Gu as part of Getty PST ART: Art & Science Collide, featuring contributions by Jennifer Johung, Mae-Ling Lokko, Elsa MH Mäki, Zofia Trafas White, and Amy Zhang.
