Scripting cultures : architectural design and programming / Mark Burry.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burry, Mark.

Series:

AD primers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design.

Computer-aided design.

Architectural models.

Architecture, Modern--21st century.

Architecture, Modern.

Physical Description:

272 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, UK : Wiley, 2011.

Summary:

With scripting, computer programming becomes integral to the digital design process. It provides unique opportunities for innovation, enabling designers to customise the software around their own predilections and modes of working. It liberates designers by automating many routine aspects and repetitive activities of the design process, freeing them up 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 Mast significantly perhaps, scripting as a computing program overlay enables the tool user (designer) to become the new tool make (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 the theoretical implications are.

This book:

Investigates the application of scripting for productivity, experimentation and design speculation.

Offers detailed exploration of the scripting of Gaudi's final realized design for the Sagrada Familia, 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Scripting cultures 8

Chapter 2 Contextual summary of computing, scripting and speculative design 13

Chapter 3 Cultural defence 27

Chapter 4 Resources 72

Chapter 5 Dimensions 89

Chapter 6 Scripted productivity: Gaudi's rose windows 126

Chapter 7 Composition and form 152

Chapter 8 Simplifying complexity for fabrication 171

Chapter 9 Scripting narrative space: Our World and The Third Policeman 190

Chapter 10 Performative scripting 224

Chapter 11 Cultural account: scripting and shifts in authorship 246.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780470746424

0470746424

9780470746417

0470746416

OCLC:

690090060