Now almost 20 years old, the digital turn in architecture has
already gone through several stages and phases. Architectural
Design (AD) has captured them all – from folding
to cyberspace, nonlinearity and hypersurfaces, from versioning to
scripting, emergence, information modelling and parametricism. It
has recorded and interpreted the spirit of the times with vivid
documentary precision, fostering and often anticipating crucial
architectural and theoretical developments. This anthology of
AD’s most salient articles is chronologically and
thematically arranged to provide a complete historical timeline of
the recent rise to pre-eminence of computer-based design and
production. Mario Carpo provides an astute overview of the recent
history of digital design in his comprehensive introductory essay
and in his leaders to each original text. A much needed pedagogical
and research tool for students and scholars, this synopsis also
relates the present state of digitality in architecture to the
history and theory of its recent development and trends, and raises
issues of crucial importance for the contemporary practice of the
design professions.
* A comprehensive anthology on digital architecture edited by one
of its most eminent scholars in this field, Mario Carpo.
* Includes seminal texts by Bernard Cache, Peter Eisenman, John
Frazer, Charles Jencks, Greg Lynn, Achim Menges and Patrik
Schumacher.
* Features key works by FOA, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Ali Rahim,
Lars Spuybroek/NOX, Kas Oosterhuis and SHo P.
Tabella dei contenuti
8 Introduction
Twenty Years of Digital Design
15 Architecture After the Age of Printing (1992)
Visions Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media AD September-October 1992
Peter Eisenman
The Affects of Singularity AD November-December 1992
Peter Eisenman
28 Folding in Architecture (1993)
Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant and the Supple AD March-April 1993
Greg Lynn
Shoei Yoh, Prefectura Gymnasium AD March-April 1993
Greg Lynn
48 The Architectural Relevance of Cyberspace (1995)
The Architectural Relevance of Cyberspace AD November-December 1995
John Frazer
Architectural Experiments AD November-December 1995
John Frazer
57 The Digital and the Global (1996)
Yokohama International Port Terminal AD July-August 1996
Foreign Office Architects
62 Field Conditions (1997)
From Object to Field AD May-June 1997
Stan Allen
80 Nonlinear Architecture (1997)
Nonlinear Architecture: New Science = New Architecture? AD September-October 1997
Charles Jencks
Landform Architecture: Emergent in the Nineties AD September-October 1997
Charles Jencks
108 Hypersurfaces (1998)
Motor Geometry AD May-June 1998
Lars Spuybroek
Salt Water Live: Behaviour of the Salt Water Pavilion AD May-June 1998
Kas Oosterhuis
124 Embryologic Houses (2000)
Embryologic Houses AD May-June 2000
Greg Lynn
131 Versioning (2002)
Introduction to Versioning: Evolutionary Techniques in Architecture AD September-October 2002
SHo P/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli
Eroding the Barriers AD September-October 2002
SHo P/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli
146 Topological Architecture (1998-2003)
Bernard Cache/Objectile: Topological Architecture and the Ambiguous Sign AD May-June 1998
Stephen Perrella
Philibert De L’Orme Pavilion: Towards an Associative Architecture AD March-April 2003
Bernard Cache
158 Morphogenesis and Emergence (2004-2006)
Introduction to Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies AD May-June 2004
Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock
Polymorphism AD March-April 2006
Achim Menges
182 Scripting (2006)
20 Years of Scripted Space AD July-August 2006
Malcolm Mc Cullough
188 Collective Intelligence (2006)
Introduction to Collective Intelligence in Design AD September-October 2006
Christopher Hight and Chris Perry
Computational Intelligence: The Grid as a Post-Human Network AD September-October 2006
Philippe Morel
208 Elegance (2007)
The Economies of Elegance, Migrating Coastlines: Residential Tower, Dubai AD January-February 2007
Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle
Deus ex Machina: From Semiology to the Elegance of Aesthetics AD January-February 2007
Mark Foster Gage
226 Building Information Modelling (2009)
Optimisation Stories: The Impact of Building Information
Modelling on Contemporary Design Practice AD March-April 2009
Richard Garber
240 A New Global Style (2009)
Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design AD July-August 2009
Patrik Schumacher
258 Index
Circa l’autore
Mario Carpo teaches architectural history and theory at the
School of Architecture of Paris-La Villette, at the Georgia
Institute of Technology and at the Yale School of Architecture. His
research and publications focus on the relationship between
architectural theory, cultural history and the history of
information technology. Among his publications are the
award-winning Architecture in the Age of Printing (2001),
monographs on Sebastiano Serlio and Leon Battista Alberti, and
The Alphabet and the Algorithm (2011), a history and critique
of digital design theory. Carpo’s writings are also published
internationally in journals and architectural magazines.
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