Protoarchitecture
Analogue and Digital Hybrids
Architectural Design
1. Edition July 2008
136 Pages, Softcover
Monograph
Short Description
In the last decade, the interface of CAD (computer-aided drawing) and CAM (computer-aided manufacture) has opened up a whole new range of possibilities for architects. Structures, prototypes, and three-dimensional objects can now be crafted, assembled, and installed as a direct consequence of digital drawings and the information/instructions embedded within them. Protoarchitecture explores the innovative work being done when moving from the world of analogue to digital, which is now responsible for invigorating new and worn tools and redefining the scope and expertise of those who use them. Including the work of an international group of designers from Belgium, Canada, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, UK, and U.S., this exciting book gives architects and students a spectacular look at what can be imagined and built today.
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.
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
