Architecture in the Digital Age

Description

Architecture in the Digital Age. Design and Manufacturing.

This book addresses contemporary architectural practice in which digital technologies are radically changing how buildings are conceived, designed and produced. It discusses the digitally-driven changes, their origins, and their effects by grounding them in actual practices already taking place, while simultaneously speculating about their wider implications for the future. The book offers a diverse set of ideas as to what is relevant today and what will be relevant tomorrow for emerging architectural practices of the digital age.

CONTENTS

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Digital Morphogenesis
• 3. Digital Production
• 4. Information Master Builders
• 5. Digital Master Builders?
• 6. Design Worlds and Fabrication Machines
• 7. Laws of Form
• 8. Evolution of the Digital Design Process
• 9. Real as Data
• 10. Towards a Fully Associative Architecture
• 11. Between Intuition and Process: Parametric Design and Rapid Prototyping
• 12. Scott Points: Exploring Principles of Digital Creativity
• 13. Making Ideas
• 14. Designing and Manufacturing Performative Architecture
• 15. Generative Convergences
• 16. Other Challenges
• 17. Extensible Computational Design Tools for Exploratory Architecture
• 18. Building Information Modelling: Current Challenges and Future Directions
• 19. Is there More to Come?
• 20. The Construction Industry in an Age of Anxiety
• 21. Performance-Based Design
• 22. Challenges Ahead

320 pages / 25,6 x 25,6 cm / English