Mark Taylor

Jeff Malpas

Mark Burry

Gini Lee

Stanislav Roudavski

This book provides a detailed analysis of the nature of parametricism and explores how designers and architects capture the qualities of place though their practice.

Critical, Archival and Digital Approaches to Contemporary Design

Place and Parametricism

Peter Downton

Andrea Mina

Michael Ostwald

"An exhibition studying the link between physical and digital models in the design process. In this, the final volume of the Homo Faber triology on architectural models, the focus of the work is power of digital modelling and the digitally controlled model making. This volume, which includes interviews with a range of Australasian architectural and design practices, investigates the impact of affordable digital manufacturing and modelling tools on the design process. The words "post-digital' in the title are used to describe the present state in the design professions where digital and computer models are so ubiquitous that they are no longer a novelty and, for the first time, might begin to be critically assessed for their strengths and weaknesses." -- Book jacket.

Modelling, Identity and the Post Digital

Homo Faber

Michael J. Ostwald

Modelling Architecture

For the lay person, Antoni Gaudi is known as the creator of fairy-tale architecture, which not only fascinates in its completed form, but also as a fragment, like his best known work, the church of Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, which attracts countless visitors every year.

Completing the Sagrada Familia

Gaudi Unseen

'Digital architecture' is a relatively recent critical concept and encompasses all aspects of the discipline of architecture engaging with computation. It has evolved into a domain in its own right, as it were, rather than always being present from the first time architects ceded slide rule use in favour of electronically assisted computation. As this major collection reveals, we have witnessed growth of a creative digital influence across all of architecture's subdisciplines and few can deny that there is now a maturity in the conversation which had been previously quite elusive. As a major work of collected critical insights Digital Architecture therefore compiles the key texts that will be as useful to the initiate as to the experienced professional, as relevant to the academician as to the practitioner and as revealing to the sceptic as they will be to the digitally converted. It does not promote any particular stream of innovation nor establish any particular cultural agenda. The focus of the collection is the contemporary period extending from the late 1980s to the present day contextualised through the inclusion of key texts from the earlier pioneers, ordered into six sections. Each section is arranged in chronological order except where thematic clustering helps consolidate the material more usefully for the reader. A review of the best material that has brought us to an emerging digital design maturity, fully indexed, this will be a very valuable reference for all.

Digital Architecture

Given the rapid evolution of concepts such as smart cities, who are the architects riding the wave of new possibilities for urban design? How do contemporary agencies find pathways to understand the challenges and opportunities presented by evolving urban technology, and how does architecture engage with the expanding pool of associated disciplines? How should schools of architecture and urban design engage with radical digitalised urbanism? This issue of AD claims that this is contested territory. The two-dimensionality of planners’ urban construct is as limited as engineers’ predilection to zero-in and solve problems. Urban Futures contends that society needs a much broader professional brush than has been applied in the past: interdisciplinary urban design professionals who can reach across the philosophy and mundanity of urban existence with a creative eye. The issue identifies a selection of internally resourceful visionaries who combine sociology, geography, logistics and systems theory with the practical realities and challenges of mobility, sustainable materials, food, water and energy supply, and waste disposal. Crucially, they seek to ensure better urban futures, and a civil and convivial urban experience for all city dwellers. Contributors: Refik Anadol, Philip Belesky, Shajay Bhooshan, Jane Burry and Marcus White, Thomas Daniell, Vicente Guallart, Shan He, Wanyu He, Dan Hill, Justyna Karakiewicz, Tom Kvan, Areti Markopoulou, Ed Parham, Carlo Ratti, Ferran Sagarra, and Bige Tunçer. Featured architects: Arup Digital Studio, Guallart Architects, Space10, Space Syntax, UNStudio, and XKool Technology.

Designing the Digitalised City

Urban Futures

Jane Burry

Features forty-six projects that showcase how recent developments in math and physics are being applied to architecture.

The New Mathematics of Architecture

With scripting, computer programming becomes integral to the digital design process. It provides unique opportunities for innovation, enabling the designer to customise the software around their own predilections and modes of working. It liberates the designer by automating many routine aspects and repetitive activities of the design process, freeing-up the designer to spend more time on design thinking. Software that is modified through scripting offers a range of speculations that are not possible using the software only as the manufacturers intended it to be used. There are also significant economic benefits to automating routines and coupling them with emerging digital fabrication technologies, as time is saved at the front-end and new file-to-factory protocols can be taken advantage of. Most significantly perhaps, scripting as a computing program overlay enables the tool user (designer) to become the new tool maker (software engineer). Though scripting is not new to design, it is only recently that it has started to be regarded as integral to the designer's skill set rather than a technical speciality. Many designers are now aware of its potential, but remain hesitant. This book treats scripting not only as a technical challenge, requiring clear description, guidance and training, but also, and more crucially, answers the question as to why designers should script in the first place, and what the cultural and theoretical implications are. This book: Investigates the application of scripting for productivity, experimentation and design speculation. Offers detailed exploration of the scripting of Gaudí's final realised design for the Sagrada Família, leading to file-to-factory digital fabrication. Features projects and commentary from over 30 contemporary scripting leaders, including Evan Douglis, Marc Fornes, Sawako Kaijima, Achim Menges, Neri Oxman, Casey Reas and Hugh Whitehead of Foster + Partners.

Architectural Design and Programming

Scripting Cultures

Modelling Ideas

Antoni Gaudí

A study of the Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. It charts the styles the architect Gaudi evolved during his career. At crypt level a Gothic design is used, but as the building climbs the structure passes through the Art Noveau stage before becoming surreal.

Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Família

die Vollendung der Sagrada Família ; [anlässlich der Ausstellung "Gaudí Unseen. Die Vollendung der Sagrada Família" im Deutschen Architekturmuseum (DAM), Frankfurt am Main (15. September 2007 bis 6. Januar 2008)]

Mark Burry

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