Fabricate 2017: Rethinking Design and Construction - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1988366119 ISBN 13: 9781988366111

Publisher: Riverside Architectural Press, 2017

Synopsis

Bringing together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation, Fabricate is a triennial international conference, now in its third year (ICD, University of Stuttgart, April 2017). Each year it produces a supporting publication, to date the only one of its kind specialising in Digital Fabrication. The 2017 edition features 32 illustrated articles on built projects and works in progress from academia and practice, including contributions from leading practices such as Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, Arup, and Ron Arad, and from world-renowned institutions including ICD Stuttgart, Harvard, Yale, MIT, Princeton University, The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and the Architectural Association.

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About the Author

Achim Menges teaches at the University of Stuttgart, where he is director of the Institute for Computational Design. He has authored and co-authored numerous publications, notably, Advancing Wood Architecture: A Computational Approach (Routledge 2016). Bob Sheil is director of The Bartlett School of Architecture. He has authored and edited numerous publications, notably, the earlier editions of Fabricate as well as Drawing Futures: Speculations in Contemporary Drawing for Art and Architecture (Riverside Architectural Press 2017). Ruairi Glynn practices as an installation artist and directs the Interactive Architecture Lab at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. He has exhibited internationally with recent shows at the Centre Pompidou Paris, the National Art Museum of China Beijing, and the Tate Modern, London. Marilena Skavara is a London based architect. Her project ‘Adaptive fa[ca]de’ was exhibited at ‘Digital Hinterlands’ exhibition in London in fall 2009 and published in Passages Through Hinterlands which featured projects of leading graduates and young practices.

Edition details

• Publisher: Riverside Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1988366119
• ISBN 13: 9781988366111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 303
• Editor: Sheil Bob, Menges Achim, Glynn Ruairi, Skavara Marilena