Contemporary Processes in Architecture - Couverture souple

Rahim, Ali

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0471494402 ISBN 13 : 9780471494409

Editeur : Wiley-Academy, 2000

Synopsis

Architects have borrowed investigative techniques from the sciences such as folding, chaos theory, self-organized systems, bottom-up methodologies and emergence. These have all contributed not only to the process of design but to the conceptualization of the process of building in cities, themselves continously subject to change and adaptation. This issue of "Architectural Design" concentrates on digital processes and these conceptual strategies as presented by experimental architects using digital media. One of the main aims is to render these processes explicit, where previously they have only been discussed implicitly. (Discussions have tended to be veiled in philosophical theory rather than outrightly discussed.) The issue thus seeks to ask far more reaching questions than formerly aired: what are the methods in which these processes are explored, and how might their potentials influence architects' work?

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Yesterday′s working methods are no longer adequate for architectural practice. The neo–avant–garde architects are now arguing for contemporary processes that are as dynamic and fluid as the way we live and think, with the same intensity as such intangible forces as the global market and the Internet. For any process to be truly creative in the generative sense, we must condition an environment where new rules engage and inspire us. Models of design need to be created that are capable of consistently transforming and evolving, keeping pace with today′s rate of change.

This issue of Architectural Design explores how contemporary processes, in the pursuit of creativity and fluidity, have become more abstract and experimental, attempting to overcome the pragmatic determinism attributed to more conventional working methods. It explores the work of architects who design with generative potentials, force fields and conceptual diagrams developed with the aid of high–end computer software packages. Through elucidating texts and the potent imagery of process – many of the projects are illustrated stage by stage – it effectively promises that a revolution is about to happen in the production of architectural design.

· Ben van Berkel of UN Studio.

· James Corner,

· Ed Keller

· Kolatan/MacDonald Studio

· Nox

· Oliver Lang

· Greg Lynn

· Enrique Norten

· OCEAN

· Reiser + Umemoto

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wiley-Academy
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0471494402
• ISBN 13: 9780471494409
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 112
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Wiley VCH Verlag GmbH; info@wiley-vch.de; ; Boschstraße 12; Weinheim; Baden-Württemberg; 69469; Allemagne