A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging technologies Digital tools have launched architecture into a dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly, the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries and how …
Après avoir été comparé par Adolf Loos à un "crime" et quasi abandonné par l'architecture moderne, l'ornement architectural a fait un retour spectaculaire ces dernières années, souvent en relation avec la montée en puissance des outils numériques. Quel sens donner à ce phénomène? En même temps qu'il semble renouer avec une tradition pluriséculaire, l'ornement architectural contem…
Le second Cahier de l'Ibois polarise ses réflexions autour du projet de la gare Grand-Chalet à Rossinière. Christophe Catsaros et Tadashi Ono y effectuent une analyse paysagère en texte et en image autour de l'idée d'un renouveau du vernaculaire alpin. Isabel Concheiro initie un tour d'horizon des pratiques de l'habitat innovant en bois, en Suisse. Yann Rocher sonde le lien intrinsèque en…
Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a 'crime' by Adolf Loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. This is typified by the works of well-known architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton, Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no doubt that these new ornamental tendencies are inseparable from innovations in computer technology. The pr…
Even more than authorship, ownership is challenged by the rise of digital and computational methods of design and production. These challenges are simultaneously legal, ethical and economic. How are new methods of fabrication and manufacture going to irreversibly change not only ways of working, but also designers' ethics and their stance on ownership? In his 2013 second-term State of the …
As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart Cities are employing information and communication technologies in the quest for sustainable economic development and the fostering of new forms of collective life. This has made the Smart City an essential focus for engineers, architects, urban designers, urban pl…