Contemporary techniques in architecture
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Contemporary techniques in architecture
（Architectural design profile, no. 155）
Wiley-Academy, c2002
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Published as part of Architectural design, v. 72, no. 1 (Jan. 2002)
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Description
"Contemporary Techniques in Architecture" addresses the translation of techniques in design methodology to their architectural realisation, at the scale of space, material programme and construction. It challenges technique-driven experimental architects at the next intellectually rigorous level - that of exploring concepts and translating them into their material counterparts. How do you think through the building of avant-garde forms? The title includes the work of high-profile philosophers, architects and engineers, such as Manuel Delanda who wrote "1000 Years of Non-Linear History"; Greg Lynn and Foreign Office Architects; and Cecil Balmond of Ove Arup, who worked with Daniel Libeskind on his proposal for the Spiral Building for the V&A Museum in London, as well as with Philip Johnson and Studio Baad on the Chavasse Park Project featured here.
Intellectually stimulating and visually engaging, with its inclusion of spectacular writing, designs, manufactured prototypes and full-scale buildings, "Contemporary Techniques in Architecture" takes architectural publishing's treatment of the digital to a new level, looking at its potential in a realised form as well as a creative medium.
Table of Contents
Editorial (Helen Castle). Introduction (Ali Rahim). Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture (Manuel DeLanda). Emergent Structural Morphology (Peter Testa & Devyn Weiser). Interactive Opportunities (David Erdman, et al.). Toroidal Architecture (P. Scott Cohen). Gottfried Semper: Stereotomy, Biology and Geometry (Bernard Cache). Vigorous Environment (Michael Hensel and Kivi Sotamaa/Ocean North). Creating Synthesis Partners (Kristina Shea). The Digital and the Material (Michael Weinstock with Cecil Balmond). Potential Performative Effects (Ali Rahim). Predator (Greg Lynn). Skin Deep -- Polymer Composite Materials in Architecture (Johan Bettum). 'Lumping' (Sulan Kolatan and William MacDonald). Roller--Coaster Construction (Alejandro Zaera--Polo/Foreign Office Architects). Virtually Crash Testing the Box (Jeff Turko). Interior Eye: Archi--Tectonics, Aida Hair Salon (Craig Kellogg). Engineering Exegesis: Lightweight Structures (Bas Veldman and Oscar Molder). Beat the Devil (Diane Lewis). Building Profile: Climate Prediction Center (Jeremy Melvin). Practice Profile: S333 (Lucy Bullivant). Highlights from Wiley--Academy.Book Reviews.Site Lines.
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