Mass-Customised Cities

What happens when computational design and fabrication technologies ramp up to the urban scale? Though these innovative production processes are currently now largely limited to small-scale design projects, what will happen when they are applied to the vast scale of the 21st-century world city? Could new technologies enable an important shift away from mass production to increasingly bespoke an…

Diseño de áreas deportivas

La obra describe las normas oficiales referidas en la infraestructura de 36 deportes, basadas en aproximadamente 144 federaciones internacionales y nacionales. Utiliza para ello más de 260 gráficos, planos y planillas. Por su contenido puede ser una herramienta eficaz tanto para el proyecto como para el mantenimiento de áreas deportivas, por lo que lo consideramos indispensable tanto para di…

Material SynthesisFusing the Physical and the Computational

Material Synthesis: Fusing the Physical and the Computational Guest-edited by Achim Menges A new understanding of the material in architecture is fast emerging. Designers are no longer conceiving of the digital realm as separate from the physical world. Instead computation is being regarded as the key interface for material exploration and vice versa. This represents a significant perceptual s…

Principios, herramientas e implementación de Lean Construction

Principios, herramientas e implementación de Lean Construction aborda el desarrollo de los sistemas de producción desde la producción artesanal, su evolución hacia la producción en masa, hasta el cambio radical del paradigma de producción en el siglo con el modelo Toyota en Japón, cuyas bases fueron utilizadas para proponer la teoría "transformación-flujo-valor" en la construcción. Se…

OrnamentThe Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity

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…

Didáctica del taller del diseño

Esta publicación trata sobre una compilación del programa, de las ideas generales y de las monografías realizadas por los alumnos, acerca de la didáctica del taller de diseño. El seminario forma parte de los cursos de la carrera de formación docente de la facultad de arquitectura, diseño y urbanismo de la universidad de buenos aires. Las clases contaron con la participación de docentes …

Plant User HandbookA Guide to Effective Specifying

Professional landscapers and all those involved in creating green spaces have long been in need of a book that is a guide to plant specification, but also makes sense of plants and their cultivation. Plant User Handbook is for practitioners who are professionally engaged in the use of plants in public, commercial and institutional landscapes. Planting schemes are undertaken on the basis of a …

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Planning and Urban Design Standards

The new student edition of the definitive reference on urban planning and design Planning and Urban Design Standards, Student Edition is the authoritative and reliable volume designed to teach students best practices and guidelines for urban planning and design. Edited from the main volume to meet the serious student's needs, this Student Edition is packed with more than 1,400 informative il…

WorldmodellingArchitectural Models in the 21st Century

In light of current developments in modelling, and with the aim of reinvigorating debates around the potentiality of the architectural model – its philosophies, technologies and futures – this issue of AD examines how the model has developed to become an immersive worldbuilding machine. Worldbuilding is the creation of imaginary worlds through forms of cultural production. Although this dis…