Prototyping for Architects - Hardcover

Mark Burry; Jane Burry

 
9780500343050: Prototyping for Architects
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0500343055 ISBN 13: 9780500343050
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2016

Synopsis

The first overview of the increasingly popular practice of uniting digital design and fabrication technologies with hands-on building techniques

Prototyping is an essential part of the designer’s repertoire. Designers prototype their projects to test them, structurally, aesthetically, technically. Whether the prototype works or not is not the point: prototyping is the revelatory process through which the designer gains insight. There are three reasons why contemporary prototyping techniques are transforming the way architects design and build: 1) at a miniature scale, prototyping aids the architect in the presentation to clients of complex spatial ideas; 2) prototyping empowers the architect-designer to test and prove a building’s feasibility, leading to more open-minded construction solutions; 3) whether additive (3D printing) or subtractive (robotic milling), prototyping can lead to unexpected and exciting new possibilities within design as a whole, across design disciplines, thus blurring the boundaries between them in highly creative ways.

The book has four sections: an introduction that charts the rise of prototyping in design history, more specifically in architecture; an overview of techniques; a survey section featuring 30 projects, each presented through texts drawn from first-hand interviews, on-site photographs and drawings; and a reference section, which includes a glossary of technical terms.

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About the Author

Jane Burry is a research fellow at RMIT’s Spatial Information Information Architecture Laboratory in Melbourne, Australia.

From the Back Cover

The first overview of the increasingly popular practice of uniting digital design and fabrication technologies with hands-on building techniques.

Prototyping is an essential part of the designer's repertoire. Designers prototype their projects to test them, structurally, aesthetically, technically. Whether the prototype works or not is not the point: prototyping is the revelatory process through which the designer gains insight. There are three reasons why contemporary prototyping techniques are transforming the way architects design and build: 1) at a miniature scale, prototyping aids the architect in the presentation to clients of complex spatial ideas, 2) prototyping empowers the architect-designer to test and prove a building's feasibility, leading to more open-minded construction solutions, 3) whether additive (3D printing) or subtractive (robotic milling), prototyping can lead to unexpected and exciting new possibilities within design as a whole, across design disciplines, thus blurring the boundaries between them in highly creative ways. The book has four sections: an introduction that charts the rise of prototyping in design history, more specifically in architecture, an overview of techniques, a survey section featuring 30 projects, each presented through texts drawn from first-hand interviews, on-site photographs and drawings, and a reference section, which includes a glossary of technical terms.

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Publisher
Thames and Hudson Ltd
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0500343055
ISBN 13 
9780500343050
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272