Lisa IwamotoISBN 9781568987903 (published 8/1/2009)
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PAPress publication; Series
Architecture BriefsFrom the publisherArchitectural pioneers such as
Frank Gehry and
Greg Lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication. It is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer-controlled machinery that creates actual building components. This "file to factory" process not only enables architects to realize projects featuring complex or double-curved geometries, but also liberates architects from a dependence on off-the-shelf building components, enabling projects of previously unimaginable complexity.
Digital Fabrications, the second volume in our new
Architecture Briefs series, celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques. Author Lisa Iwamoto explores the methods architects use to calibrate digital designs with physical forms.
The book is organized according to five types of digital fabrication techniques: tessellating, sectioning, folding, contouring, and forming. Projects are shown both in their finished forms and in working drawings, templates, and prototypes, allowing the reader to watch the process of each fantastic construction unfold.
Digital Fabrications presents projects designed and built by emerging practices that pioneer techniques and experiment with fabrication processes on a small scale with a do-it-yourself attitude. Featured architects include
AEDS/Ammar Eloueini,
Atelier Manferdini,
Brennan Buck,
MOS,
Office dA,
Florencia Pita/MOD,
Mafoombey,
URBAN A+O (
The bone wall),
SYSTEMarchitects,
Design 306,
Andrew Kudless/Matsys,
Iwamoto Scott,
Atelier Hitoshi Abe,
Chris Bosse,
Tom Wiscombe/EMERGENT,
Thom Faulders Architecture,
Jeremy Ficca, SPAN (
Gradient Scale +
Housing in Vienna),
GNUFORM,
Heather Roberge,
PATTERNS,
Ruy Klein, servo and
Alan Dempsey+Alvin Huang.
