Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process
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Author_Peter Szalapaj
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Catenary Curves
Common Implements
Computer Visualisation Techniques
developable
Developable Surfaces
device
Digital Design Process
Digital Ground Models
Digital Representation
DTM
DTM Model
Dynamic Symmetry
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frank
gehry
Gehry's Office
Gehry’s Office
Golden Rectangle
Golden Section
graphical
Graphical Input Device
input
Le Ry
Logarithmic Spiral
Lower Left Hand Corner
Media Facade
Member Grid
modelling
NURBS
NURBS Object
NURBS Surface
parametric
Parametric Modelling Techniques
Sketch Pad
surface
techniques
Tensegrity Structure
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- ISBN 9780750657167
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 189 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 10 Mar 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process introduces the reader to new developments in the computer modelling of design form in contemporary architectural practice through a series of detailed case studies. The book illustrates how evolving design practices use and exploit the potential of new computing technologies in a wide range of areas and application.
A central thesis of this book is that technology follows design demand, rather than design adjusting to available new technology. Designers are not merely passive recipients of prescribed computing tools and techniques. Instead, they are increasingly able to express their intuitive design ideas through the rational medium of computing.
The book features several contemporary building projects, each of which introduces a range of CAD and computing issues based upon the work of creative architectural and engineering design practices. These include the offices of Frank O. Gehry, Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, Anthony Hunt Associates, Peter Hubner, Szyskowitz-Kowalski, and Faulkner Brown. All these examples show what architects need to know and the skills they need to acquire to use advanced CAD technology.
Peter Szalapaj gained a doctorate in ' Computer Aided Design' from Edinburgh University. He has been lecturing on CAD at Sheffield University since 1992 and is the author of numerous papers and technical reports on the subject. His view of CAD goes against the orthodox ambitions for intelligent or expert systems, and favours the use of computers as a medium which designers can exhibit their own intelligence.
