Title & Author:

Computational architecture / [editor] Asterios Agkathidis.

Publication:

Amsterdam : BIS Publishers, ©2012.

Description:

159 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 15 cm

Notes:
Subtitle on cover: Digital designing tools and manufacturing techniques.
Introduction -- Designing with digital tools -- Intertwisted blocks -- Tubular twist -- Skeptically speaking -- Striped shell -- Porous shell -- Parametric vaults -- Molded landscape -- To blob or not to blob: that is not the question -- Folded prism -- Fold ware -- Views and angles -- We were promised jet packs! -- Tensional surface -- Porosity -- Interweaved stries -- What we talk about when we talk about space -- Grids and attractions -- Light and shadow -- Credits.

Summary:

Computational Architecture offers an overview of digital tools and techniques, such as twisting, lofting, triangulating, drilling, knotting, and framing, that were used systematically to explore spatial, structural, and geometrical conditions, leading to the emergence of abstract prototypes.

ISBN:

9789063692872 (paperback)
9063692870 (paperback)

Subject:

Jāmiʻah al-Lubnānīyah al-Amīrikīyah.
Architecture Data processing Study and teaching (Higher) Lebanon.
Architecture Computer-aided design Study and teaching (Higher) Lebanon.
Organic architecture.
Architecture organique.
organic architecture.
Lebanon
Graphic design.
Architecture.

Added entries:

Agkathidis, Asterios, 1974-

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 284353
Call No.: BIB 223120
Status: Available