With scripting, computer programming becomes integral to the
digital design process. It provides unique opportunities for
innovation, enabling the designer to customise the software around
their own predilections and modes of working. It liberates the
designer by automating many routine aspects and repetitive
activities of the design process, freeing-up the designer to spend
more time on design thinking. Software that is modified through
scripting offers a range of speculations that are not possible
using the software only as the manufacturers intended it to be
used. There are also significant economic benefits to automating
routines and coupling them with emerging digital fabrication
technologies, as time is saved at the front-end and new
file-to-factory protocols can be taken advantage of. Most
significantly perhaps, scripting as a computing program overlay
enables the tool user (designer) to become the new tool maker
(software engineer). Though scripting is not new to design, it is
only recently that it has started to be regarded as integral to the
designer’s skill set rather than a technical speciality. Many
designers are now aware of its potential, but remain hesitant.
This book treats scripting not only as a technical challenge,
requiring clear description, guidance and training, but also, and
more crucially, answers the question as to why designers should
script in the first place, and what the cultural and theoretical
implications are.
This book:
* Investigates the application of scripting for productivity,
experimentation and design speculation.
* Offers detailed exploration of the scripting of Gaudí’s
final realised design for the Sagrada Família, leading to
file-to-factory digital fabrication.
* Features projects and commentary from over 30 contemporary
scripting leaders, including Evan Douglis, Marc Fornes, Sawako
Kaijima, Achim Menges, Neri Oxman, Casey Reas and Hugh Whitehead of
Foster + Partners.
İçerik tablosu
Chapter 1 Scripting cultures 008
Chapter 2 Contextual summary of computing, scripting and
speculative design 013
Chapter 3 Cultural defence 027
Chapter 4 Resources 072
Chapter 5 Dimensions 089
Chapter 6 Scripted productivity: Gaudí’s rose windows
126
Chapter 7 Composition and form 152
Chapter 8 Simplifying complexity for fabrication 171
Chapter 9 Scripting narrative space: Our World and The Third
Policeman 190
Chapter 10 Performative scripting 224
Chapter 11 Cultural account: scripting and shifts in authorship
246
Glossary 256
Scripting tools 260
Recommended reading 265
Index 267
Picture credits 271
Yazar hakkında
Mark Burry is Professor of Innovation (Spatial Information
Architecture) at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, where he is also
Director of the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory and
Director of the Design Research Institute. He is an Australian
Research Council Federation Fellow and Member of the Advisory Board
of Gehry Technologies in Los Angeles and has collaborated with
leading international architectural and engineering practices.
Burry is probably best known for his work on Antoni Gaudí’s
Sagrada Família in Barcelona, where he is Executive Architect
and Researcher, and has been working for thirty years on the
realisation of the completion of Gaudí’s vision through
computer-aided techniques.
www.wiley.com/extras/scripting
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