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Manufacturing Material Effects
Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture
Designers are becoming more directly involved in the fabrication process from the earliest stages of design. This book showcases the design and research work by some of the leading designers, makers and thinkers today. This highly illustrated text brings together a wealth of information and...
Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge
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Architecture in the Digital Age
Design and Manufacturing
This book addresses contemporary architectural practice in which digital technologies are radically changing how buildings are conceived, designed and produced. It discusses the digitally-driven changes, their origins, and their effects by grounding them in actual practices already taking place,...
Published June 8th 2005 by Taylor & Francis
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Performative Architecture
Beyond Instrumentality
This book addresses the emergence of a new kind of architecture, in which building performance is a guiding design principle, adopting new performance-based priorities for the design of cities, buildings, landscape and infrastructures. This emerging architecture places broadly defined performance...
Published December 16th 2004 by Routledge