Forthcoming Digital Architecture Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Mass Customisation and Personalisation in Architecture and Construction

   Edited by Poorang Piroozfar, Frank Piller

   Challenged by the recent economic crisis, the building and construction industry is currently seeking new orientation and strategies. Here mass customisation is uncovered as a key strategy in helping to meet this challenge. The term mass customisation denotes an offering that meets the demands of...

   To Be Published June 5th 2013 by Routledge
2. Architecture in Formation

   On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture

   Edited by Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Aaron Sprecher

   Architecture in Formation is the first digital architecture manual that bridges the gap between theory and practice, giving you a vital resource for navigating the digital future. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians, and theorists look at the many ways information technology is being used...

   To Be Published July 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Masterplanning the Adaptive City

   Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century

   Edited by Tom Verebes

   Computational design has become widely accepted into mainstream architecture, but this is the first book to advocate applying it to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, urban heterogeneity, through computational urbanism. Practitioners and researchers here discuss ideas from the...

   To Be Published August 8th 2013 by Routledge
4. Design Games for Architecture

   Creating Digital Design Tools with Unity

   By Aaron Westre

   Design Games for Architecture teaches you how to create playful software tools based on your architectural design processes, whether or not you are familiar with game design technology. The book combines the fun and engaging aspects of video games to ease the sometimes complex process of learning...

   To Be Published September 10th 2013 by Routledge
5. Theories of the Digital in Architecture

   Edited by Rivka Oxman, Robert Oxman

   A comprehensive volume exploring theories of the digital in architecture, highlighting important thematic connections across design, architecture, digital models, techniques and technologies....

   To Be Published September 22nd 2013 by Routledge
6. Permutation Design

   Buildings, Texts, and Contexts

   By Kostas Terzidis

   In architectural design, the problems that designers are called upon to solve can be regarded as a problem of permutations. A permutation is an ordered arrangement of elements in a set. In this case, the set is architecture and the elements are building components, such as rooms, walls, spaces and...

   To Be Published December 31st 2013 by Routledge
7. Parametric Design Using Autodesk Maya

   By Ming Tang

   The award-winning software Autodesk Maya has been widely used in the film and game design industry to create animations and special effects. Due to its comprehensive tool-set and great potential for 3D modeling, more and more architectural design and interior design firms, such as Zaha Hadid...

   To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
8. Digital Architecture

   Edited by Mark Burry

   Series: Critical Concepts in Architecture

   To Be Published January 14th 2014 by Routledge
9. The Death of Drawing

   Architecture in the Age of Simulation

   By David Scheer

   To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge
10. Form Finding and Optimization of Shell Structures

    Edited by Sigrid Adriaenssens, Philippe Block, Diederik Veenendaal, Chris Williams

    To Be Published January 31st 2014 by Routledge