The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992 - 2012
AD Reader
October 2012
264 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
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 SHoP.
Twenty Years of Digital Design
Architecture After the Age of Printing (1992) 15
Visions Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of ElectronicMedia AD September-October 1992
Peter Eisenman
The Affects of Singularity ADNovember-December 1992
Peter Eisenman
Folding in Architecture (1993) 28
Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant and theSupple AD March-April 1993
Greg Lynn
Shoei Yoh, Prefectura Gymnasium AD March-April1993
Greg Lynn
The Architectural Relevance of Cyberspace (1995) 48
The Architectural Relevance of Cyberspace ADNovember-December 1995
John Frazer
Architectural Experiments AD November-December1995
John Frazer
The Digital and the Global (1996) 57
Yokohama International Port Terminal AD July-August1996
Foreign Office Architects
Field Conditions (1997) 62
From Object to Field AD May-June 1997
Stan Allen
Nonlinear Architecture (1997) 80
Nonlinear Architecture. New Science = New Architecture?AD September-October 1997
Charles Jencks
Landform Architecture. Emergent in the Nineties ADSeptember-October 1997
Charles Jencks
Hypersurfaces (1998) 108
Motor Geometry AD May-June 1998
Lars Spuybroek
Salt Water Live, Behaviour of the Salt Water Pavilion ADMay-June 1998
Kas Oosterhuis
Embryologic Houses (2000) 124
Embryologic Houses AD May-June 2000
Greg Lynn
Versioning (2002) 131
Introduction to Versioning. Evolutionary Techniques inArchitecture AD September-October 2002
SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli
Eroding the Barriers AD September-October 2002
SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli
Topological Architecture (1998-2003) 146
Bernard Cache/Objectile, Topological Architecture and theAmbiguous Sign AD May-June 1998
Stephen Perrella
Philibert De L'Orme Pavilion: Towards an AssociativeArchitecture AD March-April 2003
Bernard Cache
Morphogenesis and the Mathematics of Emergence (2004-2006)158
Introduction to Emergence: Morphogenetic DesignStrategies AD May-June 2004
Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock
Polymorphism AD March-April 2006
Achim Menges
Scripting (2006) 182
20 Years of Scripted Space AD July-August2006
Malcolm McCullough
Collective Intelligence (2006) 188
Introduction to Collective Intelligence in Design ADSeptember-October 2006
Christopher Hight and Chris Perry
Computational Intelligence: The Grid as a Post-HumanNetwork AD September-October 2006
Philippe Morel
Elegance (2007) 208
The Economies of Elegance. Migrating Coastlines: ResidentialTower, Dubai AD January-February 2007
Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle
Deus ex Machina: From Semiology to the Elegance ofAesthetics AD January-February 2007
Mark Foster Gage
Building Information Modelling (2009) 226
Optimisation Stories: The Impact of BuildingInformation
Modelling on Contemporary Design Practice ADMarch-April 2009
Richard Garber
A New Global Style (2009) 240
Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and UrbanDesign AD July-August 2009
Patrik Schumacher
Index
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.
