[ebooks] The Supermodel and the Brillo Box: Back Stories and Peculiar Economics from the World of Contemporary Art by Don Thompson at Arts-Photography

Description

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.