Contents
INTRODUCTION 8
Twenty Years of Digital Design
ARCHITECTURE AFTER THE AGE OF PRINTING (1992) 15
Visions Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media AD SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 1992
Peter Eisenman
The Affects of Singularity AD NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1992
Peter Eisenman
FOLDING IN ARCHITECTURE (1993) 28
Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant and the Supple AD MARCH-APRIL 1993
Greg Lynn
Shoei Yoh, Prefectura Gymnasium AD MARCH-APRIL 1993
Greg Lynn
THE ARCHITECTURAL RELEVANCE OF CYBERSPACE (1995) 48
The Architectural Relevance of Cyberspace AD NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1995
John Frazer
Architectural Experiments AD NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1995
John Frazer
THE DIGITAL AND THE GLOBAL (1996) 57
Yokohama International Port Terminal AD JULY-AUGUST 1996
Foreign Office Architects
FIELD (ONDITIONS (1997) 62
From Object to Field AD MAY-JUNE 1997
Stan Allen
NONLINEAR ARCHITECTURE (1997) 80
Nonlinear Architecture: New Science = New Architecture? AD SEPTEMBER- OCTOBER 1997
Charles Jencks
Landform Architecture: Emergent in the Nineties AD SEPTEMBER- OCTOBER 1997
Charles Jencks
HYPERSURFACES (1998) 108
Motor Geometry AD MAY-JUNE 1998
Lars Spuybroek
Salt Water Live: Behaviour of the Salt Water Pavilion AD MAY-JUNE 1998
Kas Oosterhuis
EMBRYOLOGIC HouSES© (2000) 124
Embryologic Houses© AD MAY-JUNE 2000
Greg Lynn
VERSIONING (2002) 131
Introduction to Versioning: Evolutionary Techniques in Architecture AD SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2002
SHoP /Sharples Holden Pasquarelli
Eroding the Barriers AD SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2002
SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli
TOPOLOGICAL ARCHITECTURE (1998-2003) 146
Bernard Cache/Objectile: Topological Architecture and the Ambiguous Sign AD MAY-JUNE 1998
Stephen Perrella
Philibert De L'Drme Pavilion: Towards an Associative Architecture AD MARCH-APRIL 2003
Bernard Cache
MORPHOGENESIS AND EMERGENCE (2004-2006) 158
Introduction to Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies AD MAY-JUNE 2004
Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock
Polymorphism AD MARCH-APRIL 2006
Achim Menges
SCRIPTING (2006) 182
20 Years of Scripted Space AD JULY-AUGUST 2006
Malcolm McCullough
COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE (2006) 188
Introduction to Collective Intelligence in Design AD SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2006
Christopher Hight and Chris Perry
Computational Intelligence: The Grid as a Post-Human Network AD SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2006
Philippe Morel
ELEGANCE (2007) 208
The Economies of Elegance, Migrating Coastlines: Residential Tower, Dubai AD JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2001
Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle
Deus ex Machina: From Semiology to the Elegance of Aesthetics AD JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2001
Mark Foster Gage
BUILDING INFORMATION MODELLING (2009) 226
Optimisation Stories: The Impact of Building Information
Modelling on Contemporary Design Practice AD MARCH-APRIL 2009
Richard Garber
A NEW GLOBAL STYLE (2009) 240
Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design AD JULY-AUGUST 2009
Patrik Schumacher
INDEX 258