Design Technology and Digital Production: An Architecture Anthology

This book is a rigorous account of architecture’s theoretical and technological concerns over the last decade. The anthology presents projects and essays produced at the end of the first digital turn and the start of the second digital turn. This anthology engages and deploys a variety of discourses, topics, criteria, pedagogies, and technologies, including some of today’s most influential architects, practitioners, academics, and critics. It is an unflinchingly rigorous and unapologetic account of architecture’s disciplinary concerns in the last decade. This is a story that has not been told; in recent years everything has been refracted through the prism of the post-digital generation.

Design Technology and Digital Production illustrates the shift to an architectural world where we can learn with and from each other, develop a community of new technologies and embrace a design ecology that is inclusive, open, and visionary. This collection fosters a sense of shared experience and common purpose, along with a collective responsibility for the well-being of the discipline of architecture as a whole.

Gabriel Esquivel is an associate professor at Texas A&M University and the director of the T4T Lab and AI Advanced Research Lab at Texas A&M University. Gabriel was born and educated as an architect in Mexico City with a degree from the National University and received his master’s degree in Architecture from The Ohio State University. He previously taught Architecture and Design at the Knowlton School of Architecture and the Design Department at The Ohio State University. He is a founding partner of the online magazine AGENCIA, a publication dedicated to problems about teaching theory, and technology in Mexico.