Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design ? Assembly ? Industry

Marble, Scott, Editor

ISBN 10: 3034607997 / ISBN 13: 9783034607995

Published by Birkhauser, Basel, 2012

About this Item

(SWIT) 1st printing No markings, Fine; no dust jacket as pulbished. Boards, 280pp, colour photos and illus. From the cover: The logics of digital processes in architecture have begun to structure the way that architects design, the way that builders build, and the way that industry is reorganizing. The process of architectural design has become a complex workflow. At the core of the shift toward more expansive forms of digital production within the design and construction industry is the integration of communication through digital networks. The goal is to develop a continuous, easily accessible and parametrically adaptable body of information that coordinates the process from design through a building's lifecycle. Organized around the key fields of Designing Design, Designing Assembly and Designing Industry, this book is a reference work on digital technologies as key factors in architectural design, fabrication and workflow organization. A heavy book, (3.5 JM LVR 206/b2 Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design ? Assembly ? Industry
• Publisher: Birkhauser, Basel
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034607997
• ISBN 13: 9783034607995
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

The assimilation and synthesis of digital communications among architects, engineers, fabricators and builders is dramatically altering how we work and our relationship to the tools we use. New digital capacities are restructuring the organization and hierarchy of design from autonomous processes to collective workflows. The historical role of the designer as an author, a sole creator, is being replaced with semi-autonomous, algorithmically driven design workflows deeply embedded in a collective digital communication infrastructure. This is creating a number of pressures on the discipline of architecture to reorganize around the opportunities, and risks, of these changes. 

Organized around the themes of Designing Design, Designing Assembly and Designing Industry, this book presents essays and case studies on digital technologies as key factors in architectural design, fabrication and workflow organization. Contributors include Ben van Berkel (UN Studio), Shane Burger (Grimshaw), Thom Mayne (Morphosis), Frank Barkow & Regine Leibinger (Barkow Leibinger), Fabian Scheurer (designtoproduction), James Kotronis (Gehry Technologies), Phil Bernstein (Autodesk Inc.), Neil Denari (NDMA) and Paolo Tombesi (University of Melbourne) among others .

About the Author

Scott Marble is a Founding Partner of Marble Fairbanks Architects and Director of Integrated Design at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). He is currently Director of The Columbia Building Intelligence Project (CBIP).