Protoarchitecture : analogue and digital hybrids /
Analogue and digital hybrids
guest-edited by Bob Sheil.
- 136 pages : colour illustrations, plans ; 28 cm.
- Architectural design ; v. 78, no. 4 .
- Architectural design (London, England : 1971) . 78, no. 4. .
At head of title: Architectural Design, July/August 2008.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Protoarchitecture: Between the Analogue and the Digital / The Wonder of Trivial Machines / Strandbeests / Drawn into Space: Zaha Hadid / Convoluted Flesh: A Synthetic Approach to Analogue and Digital Architecture / The Memory of an Elephant / Thinking with Matter / Prosthetic Mythologies / Flora_Flex: In Search of Synthetic Immortality / Screens / Out of the Phase: Making an Approach to Architecture and Landscape / Objects after Image / Robotic Membranes: Exploring a Textile Architecture of Behaviour / Mapping the Invisible Landscape: An Exercise in Spatially Choreographed Sound / Interior Eye: Well-MADE New York City Apartments / Building Profile: Shoreditch Roof Apartment / Practice Profile: Jamie Fobert Architects: Inside Out / Userscape: Inhabiting the Body and the Spaces of Interaction / Unit Factor: Can Architectural Design Be Research? Fabricating Complexity / Spiller's Bits: Radical Experimentation As Research: AVATAR / Yeang's Eco-Files -- Anthropoidal Energy Production: Generating and Harvesting Electricity From Human Power / McLean's Nuggets / Bob Sheil -- Stephen Gage -- Theo Jansen -- Lebbeus Woods -- Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz -- Bob Sheil -- Mark West -- Kate Davies and Emmanuel Vercruysse -- Evan Douglis -- Niall McLaughlin -- Mark Smout and Laura Allen -- Shin Egashira -- Mette Ramsgard Thomsen -- Paul Bavister -- Jayne Merkel -- David Littlefield -- Howard Watson -- Valentina Croci -- Michael Weinstock -- Neil Spiller -- Ken Yeang -- Will McLean.
"In the last decade, the interface of CAD (computer-aided drawing) and CAM (computer-aided manufacture) has opened up a whole new range of possibilities for architects. Structures, prototypes, and three-dimensional objects can now be crafted, assembled and installed as a direct consequence of digital drawings and the information/instructions embedded within them. New Proto-Architecture explores the innovative work being done when moving from the world of analogue to digital, which is now responsible for invigorating new and worn tools, and redefining the scope and expertise of those who use them. Including the work of an international group of designers from Belgium, Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, UK and U.S., this exciting book gives architects and students a spectacular look at what can be imagined and built today."--Publisher's website.