Basics Design Methods - Softcover

Jormakka, Kari

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3764384638 ISBN 13: 9783764384630

Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2007

Synopsis

Architects often employ design methods to help them find more creative forms. These methods make it possible to break free of the traditional canon of forms and established paradigms. At the same time, there must be enough leeway for a functional, systematic design conception to take shape. This volume focuses in depth on the design methods that have decisively shaped current architectural practice.

Themes are - Diagrammatic methods (using drawings and schematic representations), -Mimetic methods (imitative), - Parametric methods (using a characteristic quantity), - Automated and digital design methods of the contemporary avant-garde, e.g. scaling, datascapes, folding, and morphing.

About this title

About the Author

Kari Jormakka has been involved with architectural design for years, not only as a full professor of architectural theory at the Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology) but also as a design consultant. Dörte Kuhlmann and Oliver Schürer teach design at the Technische Universität Wien.

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3764384638
• ISBN 13: 9783764384630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 83