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This issue of AD introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelationship of emergence and self–organisation concepts. A sequence to the successful Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies title by the same guest–editors, it advances on the previous publication by taking on board the latest developments for fully integrated design evolution, manufacturing and construction.
Emergence requires the recognition of architectural structures not as singular and fixed bodies, but as complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as part of the environment of other active systems, and as an iteration of a series that proceeds by evolutionary development. Thus the focal point of this issue will be the exploration of techniques and technologies that enable the implementation of such morphogenetic strategies, requiring a new set of intellectual and practical skills. Though the publication stands alone as an investigation and presentation of cutting–edge techniques and technologies within the design and construction field supported by examples from adjacent industries, it also introduces a new springboard for understanding and rethinking the radical changes in which architecture is now being conceived, designed and produced. While representing a timely exploration of the embedding of techniques and technology in an alternative design approach, it also presents wholly new strategies for tackling issues of sustainability.
Emergence requires the recognition of architectural structures not as singular and fixed bodies, but as complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as part of the environment of other active systems, and as an iteration of a series that proceeds by evolutionary development. Thus the focal point of this issue will be the exploration of techniques and technologies that enable the implementation of such morphogenetic strategies, requiring a new set of intellectual and practical skills. Though the publication stands alone as an investigation and presentation of cutting–edge techniques and technologies within the design and construction field supported by examples from adjacent industries, it also introduces a new springboard for understanding and rethinking the radical changes in which architecture is now being conceived, designed and produced. While representing a timely exploration of the embedding of techniques and technology in an alternative design approach, it also presents wholly new strategies for tackling issues of sustainability.
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This issue of AD introduces a new approach to architectural practice based on the interrelationship of emergence and self–organisation concepts. A sequence to the successful Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies title by the same guest–editors, it advances on the previous publication by taking on board the latest developments for fully integrated design evolution, manufacturing and construction.
Emergence requires the recognition of architectural structures not as singular and fixed bodies, but as complex energy and material systems that have a lifespan, exist as part of the environment of other active systems, and as an iteration of a series that proceeds by evolutionary development. Thus the focal point of this issue will be the exploration of techniques and technologies that enable the implementation of such morphogenetic strategies, requiring a new set of intellectual and practical skills. Though the publication stands alone as an investigation and presentation of cutting–edge techniques and technologies within the design and construction field supported by examples from adjacent industries, it also introduces a new springboard for understanding and rethinking the radical changes in which architecture is now being conceived, designed and produced. While representing a timely exploration of the embedding of techniques and technology in an alternative design approach, it also presents wholly new strategies for tackling issues of sustainability.
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endorsement from a deeply suspicious crank
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I freely hate blobitecture and its practitioners; however, I found the work in this book to be the most convincing exploration of WHY you would look into the subject from a systems standpoint; to begin by observing natural structural systems (of bamboo, etc.), then deriving architectural systems from these observations, and then deforming these systems by introducing other architectural requirements (site, unit size variation, etc., etc.). I could see how computational design applied to complex topography would be a very elegant and useful application for such thinking, and beyond. Reluctantly accept the potential for this wide open field of architectural systematization. But practitioners beware!! 90% of that stuff is bs flash, and exemplifies the mentality of: "I don't know what I want, but I know how to get it."
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