Description
What is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years, the profound impact of computer-aided techniques on architecture has been well charted. From the use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of generative design tools and parametric modelling, digital technologies have come to play a major role in architectural production. But how are they helping architects and designers to operate at the urban scale? And how might they be changing the way in which we perceive and understand our cities?
- Features some of the world’s leading experimental practices, such as Zaha Hadid Architects, R&Sie(n), Biothing and Xefirotarch.
- Takes in exciting emerging practices, such as moh architects, kokkugia and THEVERYMANY, and work by students at some of the most progressive schools, such as the AA, Dessau Institute of Architecture and RMIT.
- Contributors include: Michael Batty, Benjamin Bratton, Alain Chiaradia, Manuel DeLanda, Vicente Guallart and Peter Trummer.
CONTENTS
- Neil Leach: Introduction: Digital Cities
- Patrik Schumacher: Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design
- Tom Verebes: Experiments in Associative Urbanism
- Neil Leach featuring, Hernan Diaz Alonso: Chlorofilia, the Los Angeles Jungle
- François Roche: I’ve Heard About … (A Flat, Fat, Growing Urban Experiment) Extract of Neighbourhood Protocols
- Michael Batty: A Digital Breeder for Designing Cities
- Neil Leach: The Limits of Urban Simulation: An Interview with Manuel DeLanda
- Neil Leach: Swarm Urbanism
- Peter Trummer: Morphogenetic Urbanism
- Neil Leach: Digital Towers
- Alain Chiaradia: Spatial Design Economies
- Neil Leach featuring, Vicente Guallart: Hyperhabitat: Reprogramming the World
- Benjamin H. Bratton: iPhone City
- Ivan Margolius: Jan Kaplický (1937–2009): Homage to an Extraordinary Life of Unfulfilled Dreams and Major Successes
- Jayne Merkel: Interior Eye, Alice Tully Hall, New York
- David Littlefield: Building Profile, The Feildbarn
- Valentina Croci: Userscape, Lighting Up
- Ken Yeang and Michael Pawlyn: Yeang’s Eco-Files, Seawater Greenhouses and the Sahara Forest Project
- Holger Kehne and Jeff Turko: Unit Factor, Parallel Indexing: Infrastructure and Space
- Will McLean: McLean’s Nuggets
- Neil Spiller: Spiller’s Bits, Parallel Biological Futures
- Brian Carter: Site Lines. FREEZE: A Celebration of Design in the Modern North
136 pages, color ills / 21 x 27,5 cm / English
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