Behind the scenes : avant-garde techniques of contemporary design / Francesco de Luca, Marco Nardini ; foreword by Antonio Saggio.

Main entry:

De Luca, Francesco, 1965-

Title & Author:

Behind the scenes : avant-garde techniques of contemporary design / Francesco de Luca, Marco Nardini ; foreword by Antonio Saggio.

Publication:

Description:

93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 19 cm.

Series:

The IT revolution in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
How, foreword / Antonino Saggio -- 1. From Design to CAD -- 2. Innovative Techniques of Generating Form -- 3. From Bits to Atoms (and Back) -- 4. The World of Sensor -- 5. The Media Environment.

Summary:

"This book aims at revealing almost step by step the methods for approaching architectural design using Information Technologies to open new fields of investigation. Motivated by this spirit, in the first part are sections on Polysurfaces, Keyframing, Morphing, Metaballs, Particle Systems and others on interconnected, open and dynamic systems that bring together contemporary science and computers. But for an essential group of architects this new frontier is also a fundamental attempt to make architecture change interactively with changing situations and desires. The second part of this book is aimed precisely at understanding this world, including the "technical" viewpoint, both through a detailed analysis of the realm of sensors and interactive systems as well as by outlining the overall logic of a new environment. An environment half natural and half artificial, created and developed by new forms of media."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

3764367377 (paperback)
9783764367374 (paperback)

Subject:

Architectural design Data processing.
Architecture Computer-aided design.
Design architectural Informatique.
Architecture Conception assistée par ordinateur.
Architektur
CAD
Design
Avantgarde

Added entries:

Nardini, Marco, 1961-
IT revolution in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 228300
Call No.: NA2728 .D4 2002
Status: Available

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