Contemporary techniques in architecture / guest-edited by Ali Rahim.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rahim, Ali.

Series:

Architectural design profile ; 155.

Profile ; no. 155

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design--History--20th century.

Architectural design.

History.

Physical Description:

127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Wiley-Academy, [2002]

Summary:

This publication addresses the most far-reaching and innovative developments in digital practice to have taken place in the last five years. It demonstrates how experimental architects are being challenged at a new, rigorous intellectual level and are going beyond the strictures of the conceptual into the realm of the material. As digital techniques are starting to be successfully assimilated and translated into design metholodology, they are also, for the first time, being seen through to architectural realisation. This is illustrated here at the scale of space, material programme and construction. The title includes the work of high-profile philosophers, architects and engineers, such as: Manuel DeLanda, who wrote 1000 Years of Non-Linear History; Greg Lynn; Foreign Office Architects; and Cecil Balmond of Ove Arup, who has worked with Daniel Libeskind on his proposal for the Spiral Building, London, as well as with Philip Johnson and Studio Baad on the Chavasse Park Project featured here. Contemporary Techniques in Architecture takes architectural publishing's treatment of the digital to a new level, by looking at its potential in a realised form as well as a creative medium.

Contents:

Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture / Manuel DeLanda 9

Emergent Structural Morphology / Peter Testa, Devyn Weiser 13

Interactive Opportunities / David Erdman, Marcelyn Gow, Ulrika Karlsson, Chris Perry 17

Toroidal Architecture / Preston Scott Cohen 20

Gottfried Semper: Stereotomy, Biology and Geometry / Bernard Cache 28

Vigorous Environment / Michael Hensel, Kivi Sotamaa 34

Creating Synthesis Partners / Kristina Shea 42

The Digital and the Material / Michael Weinstock, Cecil Balmond 46

Potential Performative Effects / Ali Rahim 52

Predator / Greg Lynn 64

Skin Deep-Polymer Composite Materials in Architecture / Johan Bettum 72

'Lumping' / Sulan Kolatan, William MacDonald 77

Roller-Coaster Construction / Alejandro Zaera-Polo 84

Virtually Crash Testing the Box / Jeff Turko 93

Interior Eye: Archi-Tectonics, Aida Hair Salon / Craig Kellogg 98

Engineering Exegesis: Lightweight Structures / Bas Veldman, Oscar Molder 102

Beat the Devil / Diane Lewis 108

Building Profile: Climate Prediction Center / Jeremy Melvin 113

Practice Profile: S333 / Lucy Bullivant 118.

Notes:

At head of title: Architectural design.

Published as part of Architectural design, v. 72, no. 1 (Jan. 2002).

ISBN:

0470843209

OCLC:

48110420