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‘…elegant and arresting…providing a visually strong bookazine that celebrates the aesthetics of architecture.’ (Computer Arts, August 2010).
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This title of AD heralds a new era of exuberance in digital design. Having overcome the alienation and otherness of the cyber, having mastered the virtual qualities and protocols of the parametric, having achieved the intricacy and elegance of the digital, and having fully embraced the potential of 3d computer software and cad/cam manufacturing technologies, it is now time for architects to show off!
Conjure up the extravagance of furniture design, the abundance of cgi in Hollywood, the profuseness of bio–techno ornamentation or the lavishness of Middle–Eastern and Asian super–urbanism. Exuberance not only celebrates new Baroque theatricality, formal sophistication and digital virtuosity; it also debates a plethora of joyful and intelligent ways in which experimental architecture manages to cope with the contemporary turmoil in global politics, economics and ecology.
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One of the most exciting editions of AD to date! The book is an excellent collection of projects that not only celebrate aesthetics but also demonstrate the sheer plethora of spatial experiences achieved in digitally driven architecture. This book presents works that challenge the status quo of well known parametric or CAD/CAM digital tools, techniques and technologies that are essential for innovation in architectural design today. Well recommended!
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Architectural Design is more of an academic/professional journal than a magazine for popular consumption it appears, so I should disclose that - while I am in fact an academic - I'm no architect (I'm a philosopher with an interest in aesthetics).
As it happens, this particular issue features very little of what I'd ordinarily regard as architecture - that's largely confined to the last section, which has some interesting discussion of amongst other things the Olympic buildings in Vancouver. The majority of the issue is focused on the theme of exuberance with particular emphasis on digital architecture: in other words, fantastic computer designs bearing very little relation to any possible physical object (some of these architects had obviously been indulging in the likes of Dali and Escher).
I found some of the pictures interesting, but probably not as much as I hoped I would. Unfortunately, most of the accompanying articles were full of rather meaningless pretentious drivel, for instance, "DigitAlia avoids the dichotomy of rational and empirical thinking, and enables the morphing of classical-digital architectural semantics into playful theatrical tectonics and typologies" (p. 18). There were a few exceptions, such as Lim on eco-friendly smartcities and Clark on fashion, but these stood out only for being intelligible, not particularly informative.
Overall, not bad to flick through for a few minutes, and with some rather pretty pictures, but devoid of much in the way of real content and unlikely to be of significant interest to a non-specialist.
As it happens, this particular issue features very little of what I'd ordinarily regard as architecture - that's largely confined to the last section, which has some interesting discussion of amongst other things the Olympic buildings in Vancouver. The majority of the issue is focused on the theme of exuberance with particular emphasis on digital architecture: in other words, fantastic computer designs bearing very little relation to any possible physical object (some of these architects had obviously been indulging in the likes of Dali and Escher).
I found some of the pictures interesting, but probably not as much as I hoped I would. Unfortunately, most of the accompanying articles were full of rather meaningless pretentious drivel, for instance, "DigitAlia avoids the dichotomy of rational and empirical thinking, and enables the morphing of classical-digital architectural semantics into playful theatrical tectonics and typologies" (p. 18). There were a few exceptions, such as Lim on eco-friendly smartcities and Clark on fashion, but these stood out only for being intelligible, not particularly informative.
Overall, not bad to flick through for a few minutes, and with some rather pretty pictures, but devoid of much in the way of real content and unlikely to be of significant interest to a non-specialist.
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A collection of computer-generated renditions of perhaps a more optimistic,forward looking and more human architecture than the strict neomodernism of the past 20 years have established as the norm.
I live in Qatar, the wealthiest per capita country in the world, and one of the few places on the planet with the financial resources and youthful brio of an emerging country to really go to town on futuristic architecture. There's a lot of very, very weird buildings going up round here, all of which were only possible because computers could be used to prefabricate parts and calculate structural validity. The King's son here lives in an enormous concrete snail on the beach: A bank is held up by huge artificial tree roots. A library is a green aluminium flying saucer floating on 100 meter tall supports. A skyscraper hotel has an outdoor swimming pool halfway up it's length, ringing the building. Such things are possible if one has the money and the gusto to build them.
So perhaps because of that I see the computer renditions of fantastical organic buildings herein as nearer being actual possibilities than mere fantasy. These buildings, in part inspired by SF videogames and comics,are about confidence and hope for the future, something that's obviously a bit lacking in the West at the moment.
Beyond that, it's a beauifully illustrated and laid out magazine. The supporting articles were a bit too difficult for me to grasp, but it's obviously aimed at professionals rather than casual punters like meself. Lovely.
I live in Qatar, the wealthiest per capita country in the world, and one of the few places on the planet with the financial resources and youthful brio of an emerging country to really go to town on futuristic architecture. There's a lot of very, very weird buildings going up round here, all of which were only possible because computers could be used to prefabricate parts and calculate structural validity. The King's son here lives in an enormous concrete snail on the beach: A bank is held up by huge artificial tree roots. A library is a green aluminium flying saucer floating on 100 meter tall supports. A skyscraper hotel has an outdoor swimming pool halfway up it's length, ringing the building. Such things are possible if one has the money and the gusto to build them.
So perhaps because of that I see the computer renditions of fantastical organic buildings herein as nearer being actual possibilities than mere fantasy. These buildings, in part inspired by SF videogames and comics,are about confidence and hope for the future, something that's obviously a bit lacking in the West at the moment.
Beyond that, it's a beauifully illustrated and laid out magazine. The supporting articles were a bit too difficult for me to grasp, but it's obviously aimed at professionals rather than casual punters like meself. Lovely.
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Prettyish pictures, not much else.
I must admit, it wasn't quite what I was expecting. Whilst I appreciate inspired architecture, I found much of it was purely aesthetics over, and sometimes in spite of, function. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Mr. M. P. Duffy
a mature, insightful approach
I really enjoyed the way Exuberance talks about a digital design culture that is shaking up the world of architecture, in an innovative, mature and yet stylish approach. Read more
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I don't know much about architecture but I know what I like
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Published on 23 May 2010 by El Loro
Controversial and exuberant, but not necessarily in a good way
I couldn't get along with this issue of AD at all. It's an issue that will openly divide the readership but I fell on the wrong side of the fence. Read more
Published on 22 May 2010 by Mr. Stuart Bruce
An interesting book
Edited by Marjan Colletti, Exuberance: New Virtuosity in Contemporary Architecture is an interesting book that will grace your coffee table. Read more
Published on 20 May 2010 by M. Williams
Some design on words
It started badly. In fact it started very badly. You will notice the shape on the front of this edition of Architectural Design Magazine masquerading as an ident. Read more
Published on 6 May 2010 by W. Rodick
Exuberant
Cataloguing some genuinely exciting designers going all fractal/organic/Tron. This will look great on your Mies van der Rohe coffee table.
Published on 26 April 2010 by Black Mask
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