Now almost 20 years old, the digital turn in architecture has already gone through several stages and phases. Architectural Design (AD) has captured them all - from folding to cyberspace, nonlinearity and hypersurfaces, from versioning to scripting, emergence, information modelling and parametricism. It has recorded and interpreted the spirit of the times with vivid documentary precision, fostering and often anticipating crucial architectural and theoretical developments. This anthology of AD's most salient articles is chronologically and thematically arranged to provide a complete historical…mehr
Now almost 20 years old, the digital turn in architecture has already gone through several stages and phases. Architectural Design (AD) has captured them all - from folding to cyberspace, nonlinearity and hypersurfaces, from versioning to scripting, emergence, information modelling and parametricism. It has recorded and interpreted the spirit of the times with vivid documentary precision, fostering and often anticipating crucial architectural and theoretical developments. This anthology of AD's most salient articles is chronologically and thematically arranged to provide a complete historical timeline of the recent rise to pre-eminence of computer-based design and production. Mario Carpo provides an astute overview of the recent history of digital design in his comprehensive introductory essay and in his leaders to each original text. A much needed pedagogical and research tool for students and scholars, this synopsis also relates the present state of digitality in architecture to the history and theory of its recent development and trends, and raises issues of crucial importance for the contemporary practice of the design professions. * A comprehensive anthology on digital architecture edited by one of its most eminent scholars in this field, Mario Carpo. * Includes seminal texts by Bernard Cache, Peter Eisenman, John Frazer, Charles Jencks, Greg Lynn, Achim Menges and Patrik Schumacher. * Features key works by FOA, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Ali Rahim, Lars Spuybroek/NOX, Kas Oosterhuis and SHoP.
Mario Carpo teaches architectural history and theory at the School of Architecture of Paris-La Villette, at the Georgia Institute of Technology and at the Yale School of Architecture. His research and publications focus on the relationship between architectural theory, cultural history and the history of information technology. Among his publications are the award-winning Architecture in the Age of Printing (2001), monographs on Sebastiano Serlio and Leon Battista Alberti, and The Alphabet and the Algorithm (2011), a history and critique of digital design theory. Carpo's writings are also published internationally in journals and architectural magazines.
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Introduction 8
Twenty Years of Digital Design
Architecture After the Age of Printing (1992) 15
Visions Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of ElectronicMedia AD September-October 1992 Peter Eisenman
The Affects of Singularity ADNovember-December 1992 Peter Eisenman
Folding in Architecture (1993) 28
Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant and theSupple AD March-April 1993 Greg Lynn
Shoei Yoh, Prefectura Gymnasium AD March-April1993 Greg Lynn
The Architectural Relevance of Cyberspace (1995) 48
The Architectural Relevance of Cyberspace ADNovember-December 1995 John Frazer
Architectural Experiments AD November-December1995 John Frazer
The Digital and the Global (1996) 57
Yokohama International Port Terminal AD July-August1996
Foreign Office Architects
Field Conditions (1997) 62
From Object to Field AD May-June 1997 Stan Allen
Nonlinear Architecture (1997) 80
Nonlinear Architecture. New Science = New Architecture?AD September-October 1997 Charles Jencks
Landform Architecture. Emergent in the Nineties ADSeptember-October 1997 Charles Jencks
Hypersurfaces (1998) 108
Motor Geometry AD May-June 1998 Lars Spuybroek
Salt Water Live, Behaviour of the Salt Water Pavilion ADMay-June 1998 Kas Oosterhuis
Embryologic Houses (2000) 124
Embryologic Houses AD May-June 2000 Greg Lynn
Versioning (2002) 131
Introduction to Versioning. Evolutionary Techniques inArchitecture AD September-October 2002
SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli
Eroding the Barriers AD September-October 2002
SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli
Topological Architecture (1998-2003) 146
Bernard Cache/Objectile, Topological Architecture and theAmbiguous Sign AD May-June 1998 Stephen Perrella
Philibert De L'Orme Pavilion: Towards an AssociativeArchitecture AD March-April 2003 Bernard Cache
Morphogenesis and the Mathematics of Emergence (2004-2006)158
Introduction to Emergence: Morphogenetic DesignStrategies AD May-June 2004 Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock
Polymorphism AD March-April 2006 Achim Menges
Scripting (2006) 182
20 Years of Scripted Space AD July-August2006 Malcolm McCullough
Collective Intelligence (2006) 188
Introduction to Collective Intelligence in Design ADSeptember-October 2006 Christopher Hight and Chris Perry
Computational Intelligence: The Grid as a Post-HumanNetwork AD September-October 2006 Philippe Morel
Elegance (2007) 208
The Economies of Elegance. Migrating Coastlines: ResidentialTower, Dubai AD January-February 2007 Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle
Deus ex Machina: From Semiology to the Elegance ofAesthetics AD January-February 2007 Mark Foster Gage
Building Information Modelling (2009) 226
Optimisation Stories: The Impact of BuildingInformation
Modelling on Contemporary Design Practice ADMarch-April 2009 Richard Garber
A New Global Style (2009) 240
Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and UrbanDesign AD July-August 2009 Patrik Schumacher