"Materiality"

Title"Materiality"
Year for Search2019
AuthorsDoctorow, Cory [Efram](b. 1971)
Secondary AuthorsAttlee, Edwina, Harper, Phineas, and Smith, Maria
Secondary TitleGross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture
Pagination33-45
Date Published2019
PublisherThe Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale
Place PublishedLondon
ISBN Number978-1-9996462-3-3 978-1-958121313
KeywordsCanadian author, English author, Male author, US author
Annotation

The story of told from the point-of-view of young boy living in southern California in a future that is dealing with the effects of climate change. A class project at the end of middle school is to act as a model classroom in a model Twenty-first Century Town, including wearing the clothes of the time.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. in Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales. Ed. Phoebe Warner (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2023), 186-201. 978-

Holding Institutions

DLC, PSt

Author Note

The author (b. 1971) was born and raised in Canada, lived for many years in England and became a U.K. citizen, and moved to the U.S. in 2015.

Full Text

2019 Doctorow, Cory [Efram] (b. 1971). “Materiality.” Gross Ideas: Tales of Tomorrow’s Architecture. Ed. Edwina Attlee, Phineas Harper, and Maria Smith (London: The Architecture Foundation and Oslo Architectural Triennale, 2019), 33-45. Rpt. in Fighting for the Future: Cyberpunk and-Solarpunk Tales. Ed. Phoebe Warner (Eugene, OR: Android Press, 2023), 186-201. DLC, PSt

The story of told from the point-of-view of young boy living in southern California in a future that is dealing with the effects of climate change. A class project at the end of middle school is to act as a model classroom in a model Twenty-first Century Town, including wearing the clothes of the time. The author was born and raised in Canada, lived for many years in England and became a U.K. citizen, and moved to the U.S. in 2015.