Description
The essential reader on fabrication in architecture for practitioners and producers alike.
An original and informative reader on the subject of translating architectural ideas from conceptual propositions to physical manifestations, Manufacturing the Bespoke is an essential resource for students and practitioners of architecture, as well as producers and suppliers of architectural products.
At a time where roles, methods and capabilities within the disciplines of building production are in unprecedented flux, this book:
- Provides a unique and highly current treatment on the subject of fabrication in architecture with its emphasis on contemporary technology, cultural history and theory
- A key source book for students and professionals engaged in manufacturing/fabrication projects
- Includes extended articles by internationally renowned critics, theorists, educators and designers, such as Mathias Kohler, Nevi Oxman, and Michael Stacey
- Articles will examine and refer to key portfolios of the 20th and 21st Century including works by Pierre Charreau, Peter Salter and Rural Studio
Featuring essays from pioneering architects, engineers, academics and designers from around the world on both existing and yet-to-be-built projects, the book covers architecture across the ages
CONTENTS
- Bob Sheil: Introduction
- Bob Sheil: From Making the Bespoke to Manufacturing the Bespoke
- Stephen Cage: The Bespoke is a Way of Working, not a Style
- Mark Burry: Models, Prototypes and Archetypes: Fresh Dilemmas Emerging from the “File to Factory” Era
- Michael Stacey: Digital Craft in the Making of Architecture
- Tobias Bonwetsch, Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler: R-O-B Towards a Building Bespoke Process
- Mary Vaughan Johnson: The Matter of Pochoir and the Imaging of the Maison de Verre
- Philipp Beasley: Soil and Protoplasm: Designing the Hylozoic Ground Component System
- Peter Salter: Walmer Road
- Mark West: The Fore Cast
- Nat Chard: Drawing out an Indeterminate Duration
- Kate Davies and Emmanuel Vercruysse; Luquidfactory: Iscissions in the Haze
- Natalija Subotincic: An Interview with Frank Fantauzzi from Iceberg Project
- Guan Lee: Grymsdyke Farm: An Inquiry into Making on Site
- Anderson Inge: The Rural Studio: Between a Twister and a Hurricane
- Charles Walker and Martin Self: Fractal, Bad Hair, Swoosh and Driftwood: Pavilions of AA Intermidiate Unit 2, 2006 – 2009
- Phil Ayres: Microstucture, Macrostructre and the Steering of Material Proclivities
- Rachel Armstrong: Print to Protocell
- Xavier de Kestelier and Richard Buswell: Large-Scale Additive Fabrication: Freeform Construction
- Neri Oxman: Material Computation
- Constance Adams: Models of Risk: Craft Past and Present in Prototyping for Human Space Flight
280 pages, color & b&w ills / 17 x 24,5 cm / English
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