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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.
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.
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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.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Protoarchitecture is a special AD issue. Sheil puts together a variety of texts, projects, prototypes and installations that are highly experimental and which strengthen the importance of innovative and new creative design processes. A lot of the selected work adopts hybrid modes of analogue and digital design, even employing old techniques that seemed outdated by today's obsession with advanced computational systems. This is what makes this publication so pertinent. Being aware that in our post-digital era architecture is being threatened by the emergence of a new digital modernism (intellectually rather orthodox and dogmatic and in terms of design increasingly undifferentiated), Sheil professes a plural and varied approach that favours the quirky, eccentric, exuberant and unpredictable side of architecture; work that does not conform and is by definition exceptional, as he points out in his introduction. This beautiful and in detail illustrated publication is highly recommendable.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This issue of AD is very well put together, a thoughtful assortment of sometimes bizarre machines. As Picasso said : "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." These works are clearly by people who work their way through problems and pick up inspiration as they make. While not all AD's satisfy, this one is made up of those at the cutting edge of architectural design using new tools to open up whole new areas to explore.
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Architectural Design's Protoarchitecture Issue Review
16 Aug 2008
Writing from my perspective as an artist and professor, what is most engaging and encouraging is Mr. Sheil's advocacy for very inclusive, not exclusive, approaches toward design making processes. The architects, designers, and artists selected have significantly expanded the array of possibilities working between older and newer technologies. They represent much more fluid and integrative individual and collaborative creative approaches. Thus, due to an ever expanding number of similar minded practitioners and advocates for them, our environs are again becoming more socio-psychologically engaging. Our architectural and artistic realms are becoming "unboxed" with more contemporaneous and organic type definitions. And, as shown with Mr. Sheil's selections, these practitioners are not only impacting the urban context, but those from the sea shores to mountain tops.
Thankfully, Mr. Sheil also incorporated advanced student work into his representation. As a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, it is my conviction that students are also very responsible for creating institutional, educational, and cultural advances.
Kudos to Architectural Design for selecting Mr. Sheil as a guest editor for a second time! As is historically the case, AD has made for another excellent and provocative reading.
Thankfully, Mr. Sheil also incorporated advanced student work into his representation. As a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University, it is my conviction that students are also very responsible for creating institutional, educational, and cultural advances.
Kudos to Architectural Design for selecting Mr. Sheil as a guest editor for a second time! As is historically the case, AD has made for another excellent and provocative reading.
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