Digital Architecture
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Design Games for Architecture
Creating Digital Design Tools with Unity
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
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Architecture in Formation
On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture
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
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Performalism
Form and Performance in Digital Architecture
Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of the status of the architectural form is once again under consideration. Indeed, the computer liberated architecture from the tyranny of the...
Published August 17th 2011 by Routledge
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Persistent Modelling
Extending the Role of Architectural Representation
With contributions from some of the world’s most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture. It speculates upon implications of Persistent Modelling for architectural practice, reconsidering the...
Published January 16th 2012 by Routledge
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Manufacturing Material Effects
Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture
Designers are becoming more directly involved in the fabrication process from the earliest stages of design. This book showcases the design and research work by some of the leading designers, makers and thinkers today. This highly illustrated text brings together a wealth of information and...
Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge
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Architecture in the Digital Age
Design and Manufacturing
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,...
Published June 8th 2005 by Taylor & Francis
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Elements of Parametric Design
Driven by new computer and digital fabrication tools, the architectural designs that are being built are pushing boundaries of form, customization and construction. Pushed by practices wanting and needing to produce novelty, computer-aided design systems are increasingly parametric – that...
Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
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Programming.Architecture
Programming.Architecture is a simple and concise introduction to the history of computing and computational design, explaining the basics of algorithmic thinking and the use of the computer as a tool for design and architecture. Paul Coates, a pioneer of CAAD, demonstrates algorithmic thinking...
Published January 26th 2010 by Routledge
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Emergent Technologies and Design
Towards a Biological Paradigm for Architecture
Emergence - the process by which new and coherent structures, patterns and properties ‘emerge’ from within complex systems Traditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural structures are singular and fixed, and however well integrated are separate from their environment and...
Published January 25th 2010 by Routledge
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Theories of the Digital in Architecture
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
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Co-Designers
Cultures of Computer Simulation in Architecture
Designers employ a variety of tools and techniques for speculating about buildings before they are built. In their simplest form, these are personal thought experiments. However, embracing advanced computer simulations means engaging a network of specialized people and powerful machines. In this...
Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
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The Architecture of Information
Architecture, Interaction Design and the Patterning of Digital Information
This book looks at relationships between the organization of physical objects in space and the organization of ideas. Historical, philosophical, psychological and architectural knowledge are united to develop an understanding of the relationship between information and its representation....
Published May 24th 2011 by Routledge
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Designing Kinetics for Architectural Facades
State Change
Architectural facades now have the potential to be literally kinetic, through automated sunscreens and a range of animated surfaces. This book explores the aesthetic potential of these new types of moving facades. Critique of theory and practice in architecture is combined here with ideas from...
Published June 5th 2011 by Routledge