Digital Property: Open-source Architecture: 243 (Architectural Design) - Softcover

Fok, Wendy W.; Picon, Antoine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 111895498X ISBN 13: 9781118954980

Publisher: Academy Press, 2016

Synopsis

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 Union address, President Obama stated that 3D printing has the potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything . Nowhere will the impact of 3D printing be felt greater than in the architectural and design communities. When anyone can print out an object or structure from a digital file, will designers still exert the same creative rights or will they need to develop new practice and payment models? As architecture becomes more collaborative with open-source processes, will the emphasis on signature as the basis of ownership remain relevant? How will wider teams working globally be accredited and compensated? This issue of AD explores this subject; it features the work of designers who are developing wholly new approaches to practice by exploring means of commercialising process-based products rather than objects. Contributors: Phil Bernstein, Mark Garcia, Antoine Picon, Carlo Ratti and David Ruy Featured architects: Francis Bitonti, Marjan Colletti, Wendy W Fok, Panagiotis Michalatos, Jose Sanchez, Thibault Schwartz, Aaron Sprecher, Feng Xu and Philip Yuan

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Review:

"..provides an insightful read and offers readers pause for thought in a world focussed on ever quicker digitalisation." (theNBS.com, November 2016)

About the Author:

Antoine Picon is the G Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Co-Director of Doctoral Programs (PhD & DDes) at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard. He teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture and technology. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, Picon works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the 18th century to the present. His books include Ornament: the Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity (Wiley, 2013). Wendy W Fok is the director/founder and team member of WE-DESIGNS.ORG, LLC (Architecture) and atelier//studio-WF (Art), and winner of the ADC Young Guns 11 Award (2013), AIA (American Institute of Architects) Dallas 'Express Yourself' Women in Architecture Award (2013), Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award (2009), and selected designer of the Perspective 40 under 40 Award (2011). Along with her practice, Fok is also a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, enforcing and leading the Digital Media and Design Program at the Gerald D Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston, and a Doctor of Design doctoral candidate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academy Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 111895498X
• ISBN 13: 9781118954980
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136