AD 206 THE NEW STRUCTURALISM

Description

The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies
Today the convergence of design, engineering and architectural technologies are breeding a new material practice in experimental architecture. In this pioneering publication, this important shift is fully defined as a highly dynamic synthesis of emerging principles of spatial, structural and material ordering integrated through the application of materialization and fabrication technologies. Providing the foundations for a new theory of structuring in architecture, The New Structuralism has broad implications for the way we both conceive and undertake architectural design, as its impact starts to emanate not only across education internationally, but also through architectural research and practice.

CONTENTS

• Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman: About the Guest-Editors
• Spotlight: Visual highlights of the issue
• Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman: The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies
• Werner Sobek: Radical Sources of Design Engineering
• The renowned proponent of ultra- lightweight structures charts how his consultancy has developed a far-reaching approach to practice
• Klaus Bollinger, Manfred Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann: Structured Becoming: Evolutionary Processes in Design Engineering
• Wolf Mangelsdorf: Structuring Strategies for Complex Geometries
• Hanif Kara: On Design Engineering
• Innovative design-led engineer Hanif Kara advocates a holistic approach to architecture and engineering.
• Julio Martínez Calzón and Carlos Castañón Jiménez: Weaving Architecture: Structuring the Spanish Pavilion, Expo 2010, Shanghai
• Dominik Holzer and Steven Downing: Optioneering: A New Basis for Engagement Between Architects and their Collaborators
• John Chilton: Heinz Isler’s Infinite Spectrum: Form-Finding in Design
• Helmut Pottmann: Architectural Geometry as Design Knowledge
• Neri Oxman: Structuring Materiality: Design Fabrication of Heterogeneous Materials
• Fabian Scheurer: Materialising Complexity
• Frank Barkow: Fabricating Design: A Revolution of Choice
• Yves Weinand and Markus Hudert: Timberfabric: Applying Textile Principles on a Building Scale
• Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler and Silvan Oesterle: Encoding Material
• Martin Bechthold: The Return of the Future: A Second Go at Robotic Construction
• Bechthold examines the recent revival in robotic technologies in construction
• Nina Rappaport: A Deeper Structural Theory
• Counterpoint.
• Neil Spiller: Digital Solipsism and the Paradox of the Great ‘Forgetting’

136 pages, color ills / 21 x 27,5 cm / English