Hybrid Space: New Forms in Digital Architecture - Softcover

Zellner, Peter

9780500341735: Hybrid Space: New Forms in Digital Architecture

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ISBN 10: 0500341737 ISBN 13: 9780500341735

Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 1999

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Architects, designers and engineers have been using computers for decades to increase productivity, to solve problems and for presentations. It is only more recently, however, that computers have been used as creative devices capable of generating startling new design ideas. Technocratic architects and designers are now producing buildings and structures unlike anything ever seen before. This publication presents the work of 12 leading international practitioners of a creative wave. Whether borrowing from computer animation techniques or complex algorithms, the results are sending shock waves around the architecture world, from Greg Lynn's power animations to O.C.E.A.N. U.K. radical topographies.

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Review

If you're the teensiest bit fed up of reading about "clicks 'n' mortar", you've come to the right book. Hybrid Space brings together the work of some of the most experimental and radical practitioners in this field--both architects who use digital techniques and media designers who turn to architectural methods.

The book luxuriously showcases architectural projects using digital media to its greatest potential. Paris-based Decoi, for instance, created a complex that would sit inside a volcanic crater in the Philippines; LA-based Morphosis' offers Hippocampus, a conceptual microcosm of a city that "translates space into a stream of time in which things and events can be assimilated, linked and manipulated".

Zellner isn't shy about his ambitions: to redefine the boundaries of architecture, mutate it into something that can cope with "an increasingly supple and volatile world". Bart Lootsma paraphrases it in his foreword: "Our strategy today should be to infiltrate architecture with other media and disciplines to create a new crossbreed". The book's lush graphics let you reap the benefits of Zellner's planned infiltration. --Liz Bailey

About the Author

Peter Zellner holds a master's degree from the Harvard School of Design, where he studied with Rem Koolhaas. He has taught at Australia's RMIT in Melbourne and published numerous articles. He is the author of Pacific Edge (Rizzoli), and has exhibited his own architectural work around the world.

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