MANUFACTURING MATERIAL EFFECTS

Description

Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture
Designers are becoming more directly involved in the fabrication process from the earliest stages of design. This book showcases the design and research work by some of the leading designers, makers and thinkers today.
This highly illustrated text brings together a wealth of information and numerous examples from practice which will appeal to both students and practitioners.

CONTENTS

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Retooling Architecture
• 3. Ambient and Augmented Architectures: Parametric Pedagogies in the Electrified Studio
• 4. The Craft Of Digital Making
• 5. Architect / Robot / Fabricator/ Craft-worker
• 6. OMAterial
• 7. Different Differences
• 8. Opportunistic Architecture
• 9. Translucencies
• 10. The Possibility of (an) Architecture
• 11. Computation and Materiality
• 12. Integral Formation and Materialization: Computational Form and Material Gestalt
• 13. Towards a Digital Materiality
• 14. Material Practices
• 15. Associative Design in Fabrication
• 16. Custom CAD/CAM: Pushing the boundaries of CNC fabrication
• 17. Cut to Fit
• 18. Material Effects: A Fabricator’s Viewpoint
• 19. Interdisciplinary Relationships: Innovation Through Collaboration
• 20. Collaborations
• 21. Material Experiments in Design and Build Projects
• 22. Thinking Versus Making: Remediating Design Practice in the Age of Digital Representation

320 pages, color & b&w ills / 25,5 x 26 cm / English