Digital Architecture Beyond Computers

Author : Roberto Bottazzi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474258142

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Digital Architecture Beyond Computers by Roberto Bottazzi Pdf

Digital Architecture Beyond Computers explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today. It develops a critical account of how the tools and techniques of digital design have emerged, and allows designers to deepen their understanding of the digital tools they use every day. What aesthetic, spatial, and philosophical concepts converge within the digital tools architects employ? What is their history? And what kinds of techniques and designs have they given rise to? This book explores the answers to these questions, showing how digital architecture brings together complex ideas and trajectories which span across several domains and have evolved over many centuries. It sets out to unpack these ideas, trace their origin and permeation into architecture, and re-examine their use in contemporary software. Chapters are arranged around the histories of nine 'fragments' – each a fundamental concept embedded in popular CAD applications: database, layers and fields, parametrics, pixel, programme, randomness, scanning, topology, and voxel/maxel – with each theme examined through a series of historical and contemporary case studies. The book thus connects the digital design process with architectural history and theory, allowing designers and theorists alike to develop more analytical and critical tools with which to conceptualise digital design and its software.

Author : Jacobo Krauel,Jay Noden,William George
Publisher : Links Books
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 8492796596

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Contemporary Digital Architecture by Jacobo Krauel,Jay Noden,William George Pdf

This book shows how to best present theoretical-technical information, data and images, making this title itself a cutting-edge additon to literature on the subject. The impact of digital technology on architecture has reshaped how may architects and designers work, software and hardware developments allow a greater degree of articulation and experimentation, advance visualisation of contextual impact and use can help to solve or avoid problems, and the technical advantages of applied digitisation are many and take many forms. These issues examined and discussed fully in this volume.

Author : Mario Carpo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262534024

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The Second Digital Turn by Mario Carpo Pdf

The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking. Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today's digitally intelligent architecture no longer looks that way. In The Second Digital Turn, Mario Carpo explains that this is because the design professions are now coming to terms with a new kind of digital tools they have adopted—no longer tools for making but tools for thinking. In the early 1990s the design professions were the first to intuit and interpret the new technical logic of the digital age: digital mass-customization (the use of digital tools to mass-produce variations at no extra cost) has already changed the way we produce and consume almost everything, and the same technology applied to commerce at large is now heralding a new society without scale—a flat marginal cost society where bigger markets will not make anything cheaper. But today, the unprecedented power of computation also favors a new kind of science where prediction can be based on sheer information retrieval, and form finding by simulation and optimization can replace deduction from mathematical formulas. Designers have been toying with machine thinking and machine learning for some time, and the apparently unfathomable complexity of the physical shapes they are now creating already expresses a new form of artificial intelligence, outside the tradition of modern science and alien to the organic logic of our mind.

Author : Mario Carpo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-18
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262545150

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Beyond Digital by Mario Carpo Pdf

Recasting computational design: a new modern agenda for a post-industrial, post-pandemic world. Mass production was the core technical logic of industrial modernity: for the last hundred years, architects and designers have tried to industrialize construction and standardize building materials and processes in the pursuit of economies of scale. But this epochal march of modernity is now over. In Beyond Digital, Mario Carpo reviews the long history of the computational mode of production, showing how the merger of robotic automation and artificial intelligence will stop and reverse the modernist quest for scale. Today’s technologies already allow us to use nonstandard building materials as found, or as made, and assemble them in as many nonstandard, intelligent, adaptive ways as needed: the microfactories of our imminent future will be automated artisan shops. The post-industrial logic of computational manufacturing has been known and theorized for some time. By tracing its theoretical and technical sources, and reviewing the design theories that accompanied its rise, Carpo shows how the computational project, long under the sway of powerful antimodern ideologies, is now being recast by the urgency of the climate crisis, which has vindicated its premises—and by the global pandemic, which has tragically proven its viability. Looking at the work of a new generation of designers, technologists, and producers, Beyond Digital offers a new modern agenda for our post-industrial future.

Author : A. Ali,C. A. Brebbia
Publisher : WIT Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781845640477

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Digital Architecture and Construction by A. Ali,C. A. Brebbia Pdf

Digital Architecture is a particularly dynamic field that is developing through the work of architecture schools, architects, software developers, researchers, technology, users, and society alike. Featuring papers from the First International Conference on Digital Architecture, this book will be of interest to professional and academic architects involved in the creation of new architectural forms, as well as those colleagues working in the development of new computer codes of engineers, including those working in structural, environmental, aerodynamic fields and others actively supporting advances in digital architecture. Expert contributions encompass topic areas such as: Database Management Systems for Design and Construction; Design Methods, Processes and Creativity; Digital Design, Representation and Visualization; Form and Fabric; Computer Integrated Construction and Manufacturing; Human-Machine Interaction; Connecting the Physical and the Virtual Worlds; Knowledge Based Design and Generative Systems; Linking Training, Research and Practice; Web Design Analysis; the Digital Studio; Urban Simulation; Virtual Architecture and Virtual Reality; Collaborative Design; Social Aspects.

Author : Urs Hirschberg
Publisher : Birkhauser
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3035619905

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Atlas Digital Architecture by Urs Hirschberg Pdf

Digital media have become indispensable in design; the digitalization of architecture has led to a broadening of the profession and a significant change in the occupational profile. The editors and authors of this atlas are experts in their fields and research/teach at faculties of architecture; in this volume, they present a comprehensive and normative survey of this topical and forward-looking subject. The atlas is structured in the form of modules: Design (creating geometries), Image (visualization), Text & Code (abstraction), Matter & Logic (physical representation), Logistics (dynamic representation), and Coexistence (interfaces and cooperation). The modules have been produced to provide orientation on the basis of authentic and independent information.

Author : Yu-tung Liu
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3764392886

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Demonstrating Digital Architecture by Yu-tung Liu Pdf

Author : William J. Mitchell,Malcolm McCullough
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471286664

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Digital Design Media by William J. Mitchell,Malcolm McCullough Pdf

In Digital Design Media, Second Edition, architects and related design professionals will find a complete conceptual guide to the multidimensional world of computer-aided design. In contrast to the many books that describe how to use particular programs (and which therefore go out of date very quickly), Digital Design Media constructs a lasting theoretical framework, which will make it easier to understand a great number of programs—existing and future—as a whole. Clear structure, numerous historical references, and hundreds of illustrations make this framework both accessible to the nontechnical professional and broadening for the experienced computer-aided designer. The book will be especially valuable to anyone who is ready to expand their work in CAD beyond production drafting systems. The new second edition adds chapters one merging technologies, such as the Internet, but the book’s original content is as valid as ever. Thousands of design students and practitioners have made this book a standard.

Author : Mark Burry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 0415816661

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Digital Architecture by Mark Burry Pdf

Author : David Harris,Sarah Harris
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080547060

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Digital Design and Computer Architecture by David Harris,Sarah Harris Pdf

Digital Design and Computer Architecture is designed for courses that combine digital logic design with computer organization/architecture or that teach these subjects as a two-course sequence. Digital Design and Computer Architecture begins with a modern approach by rigorously covering the fundamentals of digital logic design and then introducing Hardware Description Languages (HDLs). Featuring examples of the two most widely-used HDLs, VHDL and Verilog, the first half of the text prepares the reader for what follows in the second: the design of a MIPS Processor. By the end of Digital Design and Computer Architecture, readers will be able to build their own microprocessor and will have a top-to-bottom understanding of how it works--even if they have no formal background in design or architecture beyond an introductory class. David Harris and Sarah Harris combine an engaging and humorous writing style with an updated and hands-on approach to digital design. Unique presentation of digital logic design from the perspective of computer architecture using a real instruction set, MIPS. Side-by-side examples of the two most prominent Hardware Design Languages--VHDL and Verilog--illustrate and compare the ways the each can be used in the design of digital systems. Worked examples conclude each section to enhance the reader's understanding and retention of the material.

Author : Peter Szalapaj
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 113815945X

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Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process by Peter Szalapaj Pdf

"Introduces the reader to new developments in the computer modeling of design form in contemporary architectural practice through a series of detailed case studies. The book illustrates how evolving design practices use and exploit the potential of new computing technologies in a wide range of areas and application. The book features several contemporary building projects, each of which introduces a range of CAD and computing issues based upon the work of creative architectural and engineering design practices. All the examples show what architects need to know and the skills they need to acquire to use advanced CAD technology"--Back cover

Author : Peter Zellner
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : 0847822036

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Hybrid Space by Peter Zellner Pdf

Computers are now being used to generate startling new architectural and design ideas. This is a presentation of the work of 12 leading international practitioners, whether borrowing from computer animation techniques or complex algorithms.

Author : James Steele
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004563931

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Architecture and Computers by James Steele Pdf

Computers have revolutionized architecture. This cutting-edge guide examines the pros, cons, and various aspects of using the computer in architectural design, featuring incredible projects by such industry leaders as Frank Gehry, Morphosis, Hamzah and Yeang, and others.

Author : Nicholas S. Dalton,Holger Schnädelbach,Mikael Wiberg,Tasos Varoudis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3319807072

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Architecture and Interaction by Nicholas S. Dalton,Holger Schnädelbach,Mikael Wiberg,Tasos Varoudis Pdf

Ubiquitous computing has a vision of information and interaction being embedded in the world around us; this forms the basis of this book. Built environments are subjects of design and architects have seen digital elements incorporated into the fabric of buildings as a way of creating environments that meet the dynamic challenges of future habitation. Methods for prototyping interactive buildings are discussed and the theoretical overlaps between both domains are explored. Topics like the role of space and technology within the workplace as well as the role of embodiment in understanding how buildings and technology can influence action are discussed, as well as investigating the creation of place with new methodologies to investigate the occupation of buildings and how they can be used to understand spatial technologies. Architecture and Interaction is aimed at researchers and practitioners in the field of computing who want to gain a greater insight into the challenges of creating technologies in the built environment and those from the architectural and urban design disciplines who wish to incorporate digital information technologies in future buildings.

Author : Yu-Tung Liu,Yudong Liu
Publisher : Birkhauser
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783764321659

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Developing Digital Architecture by Yu-Tung Liu,Yudong Liu Pdf

"The Far Eastern International Digial Design Award (FEIDAD) was conferred for the first time in 2000, its aim being to encourage and honour innovative design created with the aid of digital media. In 2002, the jury which comprised Greg Lynn, William Mitchell (MIT), Gerhard Schmitt (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Nobuyuki Yoshida (A+U), Birger Sevaldson (OCEANnorth) and other distinguished architects, awarded the prize for the third time. This book presents the 67 best projects which architects, students and designers coming from 26 different countries had entered in the competition. Each project is fully documented in text with numerous colour illustrations. The new features of this year are several awarded animation projects which explore 'future space in the digital era'; these are products of the collaboration among different groups of artists, graphic designers, product designers, computer scientists, video game designers, film designers, and sci-fi novelists. This documentation of these projects offers an excellent overview of the very latest developments in digital design, through-provoking and imaginative, it provides valuable insight for all who make use of new media in their work"--Back cover.