Emergent technologies and design / Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock.

Main entry:

Hensel, Michael.

Title & Author:

Emergent technologies and design / Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock.

Publication:

Oxon [U.K.] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2010.

Description:

256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-246) and index.
Evolution and computation -- Material systems, computational morphogenesis and performance capacity -- Material systems and environmental dynamics feedback -- Fibres -- Textiles -- Nets -- Lattices -- Branches -- Cells -- mass components -- Aggregates.

Summary:

Traditional architecture starts from the premise that architectural structures are singular and fixed and, however well integrated, are separate from their environment and context. Emergence requires that the opposite is true - that those structures are complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as part of an environment of other active systems, and develop in an evolutionary way.
This book, based on the authors' internationally renowned Emergent Technologies and Design course at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, introduces a new approach to the practice of architecture. The authors use essays and projects to demonstrate the interrelationship of concepts such as emergence and self-organisation with the latest technologies in design, manufacturing and construction.
With projects from their course, and critiques and commentary from some of the world's leading design theorists and practitioners, the authors of Emergent Technologies and Design have introduced a radical new way of understanding the way in which architecture is conceived, designed and produced. --Book Jacket.

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Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

9780415493437
0415493439
9780415493444 (pbk.)
0415493447 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture and technology.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Design and technology.
Design Technological innovations.
Architectural design.
Architecture et technologie.
Design et technologie.
Design Innovations.
Design architectural.

Added entries:

Menges, Achim.
Weinstock, Michael.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283026
Call No.: BIB 220996
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available

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