Manufacturing Material Effects
Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture
Price: $62.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-77575-5
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 28th October 2008
- Pages: 320
About the Book
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 reference brings together in a coherent manner a wealth of information and numerous examples from practice which will appeal to both students and practitioners.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction 2. Retooling Architecture 3. Ambient and Augmented Architectures: Parametric Pedagogies in the Electrified Studio 4. The Craft Of Digital Making 5. Architect / Robot / Fabricator/ Craft-worker 6. OMAterial 7. Different Differences 8. Opportunistic Architecture 9. Translucencies 10. The Possibility of (an) Architecture 11. Computation and Materiality 12. Integral Formation and Materialization: Computational Form and Material Gestalt 13. Towards a Digital Materiality 14. Material Practices 15. Associative Design in Fabrication 16. Custom CAD/CAM: Pushing the boundaries of CNC fabrication 17. Cut to Fit 18. Material Effects: A Fabricator’s Viewpoint 19. Interdisciplinary Relationships: Innovation Through Collaboration 20. Collaborations 21. Material Experiments in Design and Build Projects 22. Thinking Versus Making: Remediating Design Practice in the Age of Digital Representation
About the Author(s)
Branko Kolarevic is the Haworth Chair in Integrated Design and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary, Canada.
Kevin Klinger is the Director of the Institute for Digital Fabrication, with the Center for Media Design, and Associate Professor of Architecture at Ball State University in Indiana, USA.
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