Protoarchitecture
Analogue and Digital Hybrids
Published on 4. July 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-0-470-51947-9 (ISBN)
Description
The illusive and uncertain world of translating ideas into matter is a negotiation between the ideal and the real and a central preoccupation of architectural production. By invading the toolbox of digital fabrication, design has transgressed into protocols of manufacturing previously the domain of other disciplines and skills sets. Craft, assembly and installation, once the realm of trades, are qualities that are now dependent upon design information and its status as an instruction to make. The ensuing loop between the physical and tactile, the imaginary and speculative, has defined a new expectation in making architecture as a construct that is part real, part ideal.
With contributions from Lebbeus Woods, Evan Douglis, Theo Jansen, Shin Egashira and many more, Protoarchitecture presents an explicitly diverse collection of works from leading and emerging practitioners, educators, researchers and visionaries from all corners of this innovative field.
More details
Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 277 mm
Width: 210 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
597 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-51947-9 (9780470519479)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Bob Sheil is an architect and a senior lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He has worked as a designer and maker in architecture, furniture, exhibition and web design. Following 10 years in practice, his teaching career began in the Bartlett workshop in 1995 where his key interest in, and curiosity about, the relationship between architecture and making evolved from practice to research. He is a founder member of the workshop-based practice sixteen*(makers) with Nick Callicott, Phil Ayres and Chris Leung. Since 2004 he has been programme director of the Bartlett's Graduate Diploma in Architecture, and in 2005 he guest-edited AD Design through Making.
Content
Introduction
Protoarchitecture: Between the Analogue and the Digital
Bob Sheil
The Wonder of Trivial Machines
Stephen Gage
Strandbeests
Theo Jansen
Drawn into Space: Zaha Hadid
Lebbeus Woods
Convoluted Flesh: A Synthetic Approach to Analogue and Digital Architecture
Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz
The Memory of an Elephant
Bob Sheil
Thinking with Matter
Mark West
Prosthetic Mythologies
Kate Davies and Emmanuel Vercruysse
Flora_Flex: In Search of Synthetic Immortality
Evan Douglis
Screens
Niall McLaughlin
Out of the Phase: Making an Approach to Architecture and Landscape
Mark Smout and Laura Allen
Objects after Image
Shin Egashira
Robotic Membranes: Exploring a Textile Architecture of Behaviour
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
Mapping the Invisible Landscape: An Exercise in Spatially Choreographed Sound
Paul Bavister
Interior Eye
Well-MADE New York City Apartments
Jayne Merkel
Building Profile
Shoreditch Roof Apartment
David Littlefield
Practice Profile
Jamie Fobert Architects: Inside Out
Howard Watson
Userscape
Inhabiting the Body and the Spaces of Interaction
Valentina Croci
Unit Factor
Can Architectural Design Be Research? Fabricating Complexity
Michael Weinstock
Spiller's Bits
Radical Experimentation As Research: AVATAR
Neil Spiller
Yeang's Eco-Files
Anthropoidal Energy Production:
Generating and Harvesting Electricity From Human Power
Ken Yeang
McLean's Nuggets
Will McLean