Billie Faircloth is a practicing architect and partner at KieranTimberlake, where she leads transdisciplinary research, design, and problem-solving processes across fields including environmental management, chemical physics, materials science, and architecture. She fosters collaboration between trades, academies, and industries in order to define a relevant problem-solving boundary for the built environment.

Prologue: How Should We Use Plastics? Introduction A Method: How to Wrestle With the Emergence of Plastics 1. Defining Plastics 2. Describing Plastics 3. Plastics. In. Building. 4. All-Plastics 5. Prototyping with Plastics 6. Professing Plastics Epilogue Why We Use Plastics The Way That We Do. Index

Arguing that architects' continued ignorance about plastics has prevented its use as a building material from becoming fully exploited, Billie Faircloth draws on a wide range of original data to explore its use and development. Essential reading.