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Prototyping for Architects - Couverture rigide

Burry, Mark; Burry, Jane

 
9780500343050: Prototyping for Architects
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0500343055 ISBN 13 : 9780500343050
Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

The first overview of the increasingly popular practice of uniting digital design and fabrication technologies with hands-on building techniques.Prototyping is an essential part of the designer's repertoire. Designers prototype their projects to test them, structurally, aesthetically, technically. Whether the prototype works or not is not the point: prototyping is the revelatory process through which the designer gains insight. There are three reasons why contemporary prototyping techniques are transforming the way architects design and build: 1) at a miniature scale, prototyping aids the architect in the presentation to clients of complex spatial ideas, 2) prototyping empowers the architect-designer to test and prove a building's feasibility, leading to more open-minded construction solutions, 3) whether additive (3D printing) or subtractive (robotic milling), prototyping can lead to unexpected and exciting new possibilities within design as a whole, across design disciplines, thus blurring the boundaries between them in highly creative ways. The book has four sections: an introduction that charts the rise of prototyping in design history, more specifically in architecture, an overview of techniques, a survey section featuring 30 projects, each presented through texts drawn from first-hand interviews, on-site photographs and drawings, and a reference section, which includes a glossary of technical terms.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jane Burry is a research fellow at RMIT’s Spatial Information Information Architecture Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia.

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The first overview of the increasingly popular practice of uniting digital design and fabrication technologies with hands-on building techniques.Prototyping is an essential part of the designer's repertoire. Designers prototype their projects to test them, structurally, aesthetically, technically. Whether the prototype works or not is not the point: prototyping is the revelatory process through which the designer gains insight. There are three reasons why contemporary prototyping techniques are transforming the way architects design and build: 1) at a miniature scale, prototyping aids the architect in the presentation to clients of complex spatial ideas, 2) prototyping empowers the architect-designer to test and prove a building's feasibility, leading to more open-minded construction solutions, 3) whether additive (3D printing) or subtractive (robotic milling), prototyping can lead to unexpected and exciting new possibilities within design as a whole, across design disciplines, thus blurring the boundaries between them in highly creative ways. The book has four sections: an introduction that charts the rise of prototyping in design history, more specifically in architecture, an overview of techniques, a survey section featuring 30 projects, each presented through texts drawn from first-hand interviews, on-site photographs and drawings, and a reference section, which includes a glossary of technical terms.

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Éditeur
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0500343055
ISBN 13 
9780500343050
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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