Tuesday 10 April 2012

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) 

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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