Digital Architecture Books

New and Published Books

1. Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication

   By Christopher Beorkrem

   Author Christopher Beorkrem shows how material performance drives the digital fabrication process and determines technique. He has recreated and dissected thirty-six of the most progressive works of architecture of the last few years, with perspectives from the designers so that you can learn from...

   Published August 6th 2012 by Routledge
2. Systemic Architecture

   Operating Manual for the Self-Organizing City

   By Marco Poletto, Claudia Pasquero

   This is a manual investigating the subject of urban ecology and systemic development from the perspective of architectural design. It sets out to explore two main goals: to discuss the contemporary relevance of a systemic practice to architectural design, and to share a toolbox of informational...

   Published May 10th 2012 by Routledge
3. Designing Zero Carbon Buildings Using Dynamic Simulation Methods

   By Ljubomir Jankovic

   As we increasingly become aware of the causes and consequences of the climate change, there is a sense that we are dealing with an almost impossible problem to solve; that our targets for zero carbon buildings are far in the future; and that our targets are hard to achieve. This book develops a...

   Published February 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. Persistent Modelling

   Extending the Role of Architectural Representation

   Edited by Phil Ayres

   With contributions from some of the world’s most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture. It speculates upon implications of Persistent Modelling for architectural practice, reconsidering the...

   Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge
5. Performalism

   Form and Performance in Digital Architecture

   Edited by Yasha Grobman, Eran Neuman

   Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of the status of the architectural form is once again under consideration. Indeed, the computer liberated architecture from the tyranny of the...

   Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
6. Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades

   State Change

   By Jules Moloney

   Architectural facades now have the potential to be literally kinetic, through automated sunscreens and a range of animated surfaces. This book explores the aesthetic potential of these new types of moving facades. Critique of theory and practice in architecture is combined here with ideas from...

   Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge
7. The Architecture of Information

   Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information

   By Martyn Dade-Robertson

   This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between information and its representation....

   Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
8. Elements of Parametric Design

   By Robert Woodbury

   Driven by new computer and digital fabrication tools, the architectural designs that are being built are pushing boundaries of form, customization and construction. Pushed by practices wanting and needing to produce novelty, computer-aided design systems are increasingly parametric – that...

   Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
9. Programming.Architecture

   By Paul Coates

   Programming.Architecture is a simple and concise introduction to the history of computing and computational design, explaining the basics of algorithmic thinking and the use of the computer as a tool for design and architecture. Paul Coates, a pioneer of CAAD, demonstrates algorithmic thinking...

   Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge
10. Emergent Technologies and Design

    Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture

    By Michael Hensel, Achim Menges, Michael Weinstock

    Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties ‘emerge’ from within complex systems Traditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural structures are singular and fixed, and however well integrated are separate from their environment and...

    Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge