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Protoarchitecture
Analogue and Digital Hybrids
Bob Sheil (Edited by)
9780470519479, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 4 July 2008
144 pages
27.4 x 20.8 x 1 cm, 0.544 kg
The illusive and uncertain world of translating ideas into matter is a negotiation between the ideal and the real and a central preoccupation of architectural production. By invading the toolbox of digital fabrication, design has transgressed into protocols of manufacturing previously the domain of other disciplines and skills sets. Craft, assembly and installation, once the realm of trades, are qualities that are now dependent upon design information and its status as an instruction to make. The ensuing loop between the physical and tactile, the imaginary and speculative, has defined a new expectation in making architecture as a construct that is part real, part ideal.
With contributions from Lebbeus Woods, Evan Douglis, Theo Jansen, Shin Egashira and many more, Protoarchitecture presents an explicitly diverse collection of works from leading and emerging practitioners, educators, researchers and visionaries from all corners of this innovative field.
4 Editorial 6 Introduction 12 The Wonder of Trivial Machines 22 Strandbeests 28 Drawn into Space: Zaha Hadid 36 Convoluted Flesh: A Synthetic Approach to Analogue and Digital Architecture 44 The Memory of an Elephant 50 Thinking with Matter 56 Prosthetic Mythologies 62 Flora_Flex: In Search of Synthetic Immortality 70 Screens 80 Out of the Phase: Making an Approach to Architecture and Landscape 86 Objects after Image 92 Robotic Membranes: Exploring a Textile Architecture of Behaviour 98 Mapping the Invisible Landscape: An Exercise in Spatially Choreographed Sound 106+ Interior Eye 112+ Building Profile 116+ Practice Profile 122+ Userscape 126+ Unit Factor 130+ Spiller’s Bits 132+ Yeang’s Eco-Files 134+ McLean’s Nuggets
Helen Castle
Protoarchitecture: Between the Analogue and the Digital
Bob Sheil
Stephen Gage
Theo Jansen
Lebbeus Woods
Marjan Colletti and Marcos Cruz
Bob Sheil
Mark West
Kate Davies and Emmanuel Vercruysse
Evan Douglis
Niall McLaughlin
Mark Smout and Laura Allen
Shin Egashira
Mette Ramsgard Thomsen
Paul Bavister
Well-MADE New York City Apartments
Jayne Merkel
Shoreditch Roof Apartment
David Littlefield
Jamie Fobert Architects: Inside Out
Howard Watson
Inhabiting the Body and the Spaces of Interaction
Valentina Croci
Can Architectural Design Be Research? Fabricating Complexity
Michael Weinstock
Radical Experimentation As Research: AVATAR
Neil Spiller
Anthropoidal Energy Production: Generating and Harvesting Electricity From Human Power
Ken Yeang
Will McLean
Subject Areas: Architecture [AM]
