TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES IN MORPHOGENETIC DESIGN by Michael U. Hensel (Editor), Michael Weinstock (Editor), Achim Menges (Editor) ( 9780470015292 )

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Title:

TECHNIQUES AND TECHNOLOGIES IN MORPHOGENETIC DESIGN

By:

Michael U. Hensel (Editor), Michael Weinstock (Editor), Achim Menges (Editor)

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0470015292

ISBN 13:

9780470015292

Publisher:

JOHN WILEY AND SONS LTD

Pub. date:

24 March, 2006

Series:

Architectural Design

Pages:

128

Description:

Architectural Design series Morphogenetic Design: Techniques and Technologies introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelation of concepts such as emergence and self-organisation with the potentials of the latest developments for fully integrated design evolution, manufacturing and construction.

Synopsis:

This issue of AD introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelationship of emergence and self-organisation concepts. A sequence to the successful Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies title by the same guest-editors, it advances on the previous publication by taking on board the latest developments for fully integrated design evolution, manufacturing and construction. Emergence requires the recognition of architectural structures not as singular and fixed bodies, but as complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as part of the environment of other active systems, and as an iteration of a series that proceeds by evolutionary development. Thus the focal point of this issue will be the exploration of techniques and technologies that enable the implementation of such morphogenetic strategies, requiring a new set of intellectual and practical skills.Though the publication stands alone as an investigation and presentation of cutting-edge techniques and technologies within the design and construction field supported by examples from adjacent industries, it also introduces a new springboard for understanding and rethinking the radical changes in which architecture is now being conceived, designed and produced. While representing a timely exploration of the embedding of techniques and technology in an alternative design approach, it also presents wholly new strategies for tackling issues of sustainability.

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