Tier 1 Submission
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Wednesday 11 April 2012
Tuesday 10 April 2012
task five - 6 more sources
6 more sources (aspects of experimental modeling)
MAIN ONE:
Architecture and science
Giuseppa Di Cristina 1965-
Chichester : Wiley-Academy 2001.
Beautifully and liberally illustrated with photographs and drawings of case studies in this new form, Architecture and Science itself looks like a work of art. The futuristic look of many of the designs is all the more astonishing when you realize that many of these buildings already exist as thigns and not just concepts. And whatever you may feel about the aesthetics of such "modern" structures, understanding the marriage of art and science- in a union tighter than ever- from which they sprang might make you seem them in a new light.
2.
Surface architecture
David Leatherbarrow Mohsen Mostafavi
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press c2002
Visually, many contemporary buildings either reflect their systems of production or recollect earlier styles and motifs. This division between production and representation is in some ways an extension of that between modernity and tradition. In this book, David Leatherbarrow and Mohsen Mostafavi explore ways that design can take advantage of production methods such that architecture is neither independent of nor dominated by technology.Leatherbarrow and Mostafavi begin with the theoretical and practical isolation of the building surface as the subject of architectural design. The autonomy of the surface, the "free facade," presumes a distinction between the structural and nonstructural elements of the building, between the frame and the cladding.
3.
Topographical stories : studies in landscape and architecture
David Leatherbarrow
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press c2004
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike.
Here, David Leatherbarrow offers an entirely new way of thinking of architecture and landscape architecture. Moving beyond partisan arguments, he shows how the two disciplines rely upon one another to form a single framework of cultural meaning. Leatherbarrow redefines landscape architecture and architecture as topographical arts, the shared task of which is to accommodate and express the patterns of our lives. Topography, in his view, incorporates terrain, built and unbuilt, but also traces of practical affairs, by means of which culture preserves and renews its typical situations and institutions.
Here, David Leatherbarrow offers an entirely new way of thinking of architecture and landscape architecture. Moving beyond partisan arguments, he shows how the two disciplines rely upon one another to form a single framework of cultural meaning. Leatherbarrow redefines landscape architecture and architecture as topographical arts, the shared task of which is to accommodate and express the patterns of our lives. Topography, in his view, incorporates terrain, built and unbuilt, but also traces of practical affairs, by means of which culture preserves and renews its typical situations and institutions.
4.
Architecture in the digital age : design and manufacturing
Branko Kolarevic 1963-
New York : Spon Press 2003
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, while simultaneously speculating about their wider implications for the future. The book offers a diverse set of ideas as to what is relevant today and what will be relevant tomorrow for emerging architectural practices of the digital age.
5.
Architectural metal surfaces
L. Zahner
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley c2005
Architectural Metal Surfaces demonstrates techniques for achieving a variety of surface effects through the application of texture, color treatments, and lighting effects.
* Presents more than 150 illustrations.
* Helps develop realistic expectations and accurate specifications and details.
* Describes the durability and maintenance requirements of various finishes.
6.
From control to design : parametric/algorithmic architecture
Tomoko Sakamoto; Albert Ferré
Barcelona ; New York : Actar-D 2008?]
Along with the new architectural freedoms offered by contemporary technologies come new questions. increasing importance has been given to the role of parametric design, a process based not on fixed metric quantities but on consistent relationships between objects, allowing changes in a single element to propagate corresponding changes throughout the system. In parallel, recent developments in algorithmic design processes have opened the way to scripting and other procedures that allow complex forms to be grown from simple iterative methods while preserving specified qualities. If the parametric is a technique for the holistic control and manipulation of design objects at all scales from part to whole, the algorithmic is a method of generation, producing complex forms and structures based on simple component rules. The question today is how these related but distinct techniques - the parametric and the algorithmic - will affect design practice. Leading practitioners of parametric and algorithmic design will be invited to contribute research and projects that illustrate their view on the new possibilities offered by these new technologies, their similarities and their differences. Rather than a compilation of individual projects, the next Verb monograph presents the work of each author as an extended contribution, through research and projects, that reflects a particular attitude towards the potentials of parametric and algorithmic design today.
task two - 3 personally influential images of Architecture
3 personally influential images of Architecture
2.
Taichung Convention Center
by MAD architects.
in Tai Chung, Taiwan
3.
Rabit Grand Theatre
by Zaha Hadid
in morocco
1. Oblique WTC, Office Tower
by NOX/Lars Spuybroek.
2.
Taichung Convention Center
by MAD architects.
in Tai Chung, Taiwan
3.
Rabit Grand Theatre
by Zaha Hadid
in morocco
task one - 6 sources
6 sources (ASPECTS OF DESIGN)
THE MAIN ONE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF VARIATION,
EDITED BY LARS SPUYBROEK, New York : Thames & Hudson 2009
Over the past decade, digital tools have radically transformed the design, practice, and construction of architecture. But behind the photorealistic renderings of projects that are never built is an entire body of design research that informs the latest innovations in design and construction.
Edited by a pioneer of the digital revolution, this new book takes its cue from the practice of mass-customization, one of the most important design and retail trends of recent years, to consider how variations on the same design idea can be applied to a broad spectrum of architectural, engineering, and construction solutions.
2. the Weight of the image
Lars Spuybroe, Rotterdam : NAi Publisher, c200
"The radical restructuring of the field of architecture made possible by recent developments in computer design cannot be understated*for the first time in history architects have been able to move from a top-down vision to a more organic, bottom-up vision. The OEnsect-view' model developed by the ancient Greeks projecting grids on to the face of the earth is clearly the most enduring example of this top-down order, which has been slightly modified by Renaissance perspective and then Modernist collage. Now, in the era of cyber-design, architects have the opportunity to plan works where order is not imposed form up above, but instead emerges from the inside out. The Weight of the Image documents the fourth Master Class organized at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, where Lars Spuybroek (of NOX) and Bob Lang (Ove Arup) have developed a lucid and intelligent method of design where the OEmerging view' and the OErojected view' constantly alternate, and in the book they explain the procedure in full detail."
3. the ARCHITECTURE OF CONTINUITY LARS SPUYBROEK
Rotterdam : V2_Pub. ; New York, NY : Distributed in North America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers , c2008
In the introduction to this first theoretical account of the Rotterdam architecture and art studio Nox, principle Lars Spuybroek writes, "That buildings are made of elements does not mean that architecture should be based on elementarism; we should rather strive for an architecture of continuity that fuses tectonics with experience, abstraction with empathy and matter with expressivity." Building on Gottfried Semper's materialist theory of architecture, Spuybroek takes us from a philosophy of technology to a surprisingly historical argument that recalls John Ruskin, William Hogarth and Wilhelm Worringer. The book includes several probing essays alongside in-depth conversations in which we can follow Spuybroek as he refines and sharpens his arguments. In addition to running Nox, Spuybroek is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he holds the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design.
4. ARCHITECTURAL DIAGRAMS
Pyo Mi Young, Berlin : Dom, 2011
Diagram is one of the most used words in contemporary architecture and urban design. It's almost a common understanding of using diagrams to explain the design concept. However, it is more than simply showing the audience to help them understand the idea. Diagramming is an element of design in itself. On more than 750 pages this manual showcases diagrams of avant-garde architects and designers from all over the world, among others: LAVA, JDS Architects, Jürgen Mayer H. Architects, UNStudio, Périphérique, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group.
5. Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques (Architecture Briefs)
Lisa Iwamoto 1963- New York : Princeton Architectural Press c2009
Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This "file to factory" process not only enables architects to realize projectsfeaturing complex or double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from a dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity.
6. The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies (Architectural Design)
THE MAIN ONE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF VARIATION,
EDITED BY LARS SPUYBROEK, New York : Thames & Hudson 2009
Over the past decade, digital tools have radically transformed the design, practice, and construction of architecture. But behind the photorealistic renderings of projects that are never built is an entire body of design research that informs the latest innovations in design and construction.
Edited by a pioneer of the digital revolution, this new book takes its cue from the practice of mass-customization, one of the most important design and retail trends of recent years, to consider how variations on the same design idea can be applied to a broad spectrum of architectural, engineering, and construction solutions.
2. the Weight of the image
Lars Spuybroe, Rotterdam : NAi Publisher, c200
"The radical restructuring of the field of architecture made possible by recent developments in computer design cannot be understated*for the first time in history architects have been able to move from a top-down vision to a more organic, bottom-up vision. The OEnsect-view' model developed by the ancient Greeks projecting grids on to the face of the earth is clearly the most enduring example of this top-down order, which has been slightly modified by Renaissance perspective and then Modernist collage. Now, in the era of cyber-design, architects have the opportunity to plan works where order is not imposed form up above, but instead emerges from the inside out. The Weight of the Image documents the fourth Master Class organized at the Netherlands Architecture Institute, where Lars Spuybroek (of NOX) and Bob Lang (Ove Arup) have developed a lucid and intelligent method of design where the OEmerging view' and the OErojected view' constantly alternate, and in the book they explain the procedure in full detail."
3. the ARCHITECTURE OF CONTINUITY LARS SPUYBROEK
Rotterdam : V2_Pub. ; New York, NY : Distributed in North America through D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers , c2008
In the introduction to this first theoretical account of the Rotterdam architecture and art studio Nox, principle Lars Spuybroek writes, "That buildings are made of elements does not mean that architecture should be based on elementarism; we should rather strive for an architecture of continuity that fuses tectonics with experience, abstraction with empathy and matter with expressivity." Building on Gottfried Semper's materialist theory of architecture, Spuybroek takes us from a philosophy of technology to a surprisingly historical argument that recalls John Ruskin, William Hogarth and Wilhelm Worringer. The book includes several probing essays alongside in-depth conversations in which we can follow Spuybroek as he refines and sharpens his arguments. In addition to running Nox, Spuybroek is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where he holds the Thomas W. Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design.
4. ARCHITECTURAL DIAGRAMS
Pyo Mi Young, Berlin : Dom, 2011
Diagram is one of the most used words in contemporary architecture and urban design. It's almost a common understanding of using diagrams to explain the design concept. However, it is more than simply showing the audience to help them understand the idea. Diagramming is an element of design in itself. On more than 750 pages this manual showcases diagrams of avant-garde architects and designers from all over the world, among others: LAVA, JDS Architects, Jürgen Mayer H. Architects, UNStudio, Périphérique, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group.
5. Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques (Architecture Briefs)
Lisa Iwamoto 1963- New York : Princeton Architectural Press c2009
Architectural pioneers such as Frank Gehry and Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This "file to factory" process not only enables architects to realize projectsfeaturing complex or double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from a dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity.
6. The New Structuralism: Design, Engineering and Architectural Technologies (Architectural Design)
Castle, H Architectural Design, 2010, Issue 206, pp.5-5
the convergence of design, engineering and architectural technologies are breeding a new material practice in experimental architecture. In this pioneering publication, this important shift is fully defined as a highly dynamic synthesis of emerging principles of spatial, structural and material ordering integrated through the application of materialization and fabrication technologies. Providing the foundations for a new theory of structuring in architecture, The New Structuralism has broad implications for the way we both conceive and undertake architectural design, as its impact starts to emanate not only across education internationally, but also through architectural research and practice.
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