Protoarchitecture

Analogue and Digital Hybrids
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-51947-9
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 210 mm x 277 mm, Gewicht: 597 g

Reihe: Architectural Design

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheil, Bob

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gebäudetypen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

4 Editorial
Helen Castle

6 Introduction
Protoarchitecture: Between the Analogue and the Digital
Bob Sheil

12 The Wonder of Trivial Machines
Stephen Gage

22 Strandbeests
Theo Jansen

28 Drawn into Space: Zaha Hadid
Lebbeus Woods

36 Convoluted Flesh: A Synthetic Approach to Analogue and Digital Architecture
Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz

44 The Memory of an Elephant
Bob Sheil

50 Thinking with Matter
Mark West

56 Prosthetic Mythologies
Kate Davies and Emmanuel Vercruysse

62 Flora_Flex: In Search of Synthetic Immortality
Evan Douglis

70 Screens
Niall McLaughlin

80 Out of the Phase: Making an Approach to Architecture and Landscape
Mark Smout and Laura Allen

86 Objects after Image
Shin Egashira

92 Robotic Membranes: Exploring a Textile Architecture of Behaviour
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen

98 Mapping the Invisible Landscape: An Exercise in Spatially Choreographed Sound
Paul Bavister

106+ Interior Eye
Well-MADE New York City Apartments
Jayne Merkel

112+ Building Profile
Shoreditch Roof Apartment
David Littlefield

116+ Practice Profile
Jamie Fobert Architects: Inside Out
Howard Watson

122+ Userscape
Inhabiting the Body and the Spaces of Interaction
Valentina Croci

126+ Unit Factor
Can Architectural Design Be Research? Fabricating Complexity
Michael Weinstock

130+ Spiller’s Bits
Radical Experimentation As Research: AVATAR
Neil Spiller

132+ Yeang’s Eco-Files
Anthropoidal Energy Production: Generating and Harvesting Electricity From Human Power
Ken Yeang

134+ McLean’s Nuggets
Will McLean

Über Autor(innen)

Bob Sheil is an architect and a senior lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. He has worked as a designer and maker in architecture, furniture, exhibition and web design. Following 10 years in practice, his teaching career began in the Bartlett workshop in 1995 where his key interest in, and curiosity about, the relationship between architecture and making evolved from practice to research. He is a founder member of the workshop-based practice sixteen*(makers) with Nick Callicott, Phil Ayres and Chris Leung. Since 2004 he has been programme director of the Bartlett’s Graduate Diploma in Architecture, and in 2005 he guest-edited AD Design through Making.