Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation
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...
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A detailed examination of the hottest areas of architectural design today. Library Journal Spuybroek, head of the Dutch architecture firm NOX and a leading proponent of a highly systematized form of digital design, presents a condensed version of a recent design symposium he organized at Georgia Tech, where he teaches at the College of Architecture. Six transcribed lectures delivered in the dense and somewhat impenetrable prose of academic design theory; ten generously illustrated student-produced case studies; and a section presenting design analyses of, e.g., English arts and crafts wallpaper and French poodles together advocate the adoption of design systems and processes based on handcrafted and natural forms manipulated into infinitely variable, customizable, and complex iterations by advanced software. VERDICT For architecture students, professionals, and experimental designers, who will find the underlying theory interesting if rather reductive and not altogether convincing. Nevertheless, these readers will be mesmerized by the unworldly, undulating, futuristic forms of buildings and projects existing now on printed page and computer monitor, and perhaps someday on solid ground.—David Soltész, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH
\ Library JournalSpuybroek, head of the Dutch architecture firm NOX and a leading proponent of a highly systematized form of digital design, presents a condensed version of a recent design symposium he organized at Georgia Tech, where he teaches at the College of Architecture. Six transcribed lectures delivered in the dense and somewhat impenetrable prose of academic design theory; ten generously illustrated student-produced case studies; and a section presenting design analyses of, e.g., English arts and crafts wallpaper and French poodles together advocate the adoption of design systems and processes based on handcrafted and natural forms manipulated into infinitely variable, customizable, and complex iterations by advanced software. VERDICT For architecture students, professionals, and experimental designers, who will find the underlying theory interesting if rather reductive and not altogether convincing. Nevertheless, these readers will be mesmerized by the unworldly, undulating, futuristic forms of buildings and projects existing now on printed page and computer monitor, and perhaps someday on solid ground.—David Soltész, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH\ \
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