How should we train? What should we learn? What is our value?
Disruptive technologies have increased speculation about what it means to be an architect. Innovations simultaneously offer great promise and potential risk to design practice.
This volume identifies the game-changing trends driven by technology, and the opportunities they provide for architecture, urbanism and design. It advocates for an approach of intelligent control that transforms practice with specialist knowledge of technological models and systems.
It features new developments in automation, generative design, augmented reality, videogame urbanism, artificial intelligence and robotics, as well as lived experiences within a continually shifting landscape.
Showcasing evolving research, it discusses the cultural, social, environmental and political implications of various technological trajectories. In doing so it speculates upon future urban, spatial, aesthetic and formal possibilities within architecture.
The future is already here. Now is the time to act.
Features: Austrian Institute of Technology AiT - City Intelligence Lab CiT, Bryden Wood, Mollie Claypool, Soomeen Hahm, Hawkins\Brown, LASSA Architects, The Living, Danil Nagy, Odico Construction Robotics, Stefana Parascho, Luke Caspar Pearson, SHoP Architects, Kostas Terzidis, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen and Sandra Youkhana.
Table of Contents:
About the Editor’s
Acknowledgements
Editor’s Note
Articles
Complex Urban Futures: Design Science for Flux Territories
by Ulysses Sengupta, Eric Cheung., Solon Solomou, Sigita Zigure, Mahmud Tantoush, May Bassanino, Rob Hyde, Manchester School of Architecture
The Allegorithmic Utopia of Videogame Urbanism
by Sandra Youkhana and Luke Caspar Pearson
Evolving Design: From Computer Tools to Generative Design Partners
by Danil Nagy
Entering a Bio-Based Material Paradigm: Probing Advanced Computational Methods for a Shift in Material Thinking
by Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen
Home Position: Reflecting on Disciplines, Discontinuities and Design Spaces
by Stefana Parascho
Automation, Architecture and Labour
by Mollie Claypool
Augmenting Human Designers and Builders: Augmentation Discussed in Architectural Design Research
by Soomeen Hahm
Profiles
An Intelligent Framework for Resilient Design (Infrared)
by Austrian Institute of Technology AiT - City Intelligence Lab CiT
Disrupting Design(ers) Through Automation
by Bryden Wood
Scaling Construction Robotics
by Odico Construction Robotics
Natural Intelligence: Designing with Living Materials
by The Living
Case Studies
Research by Design: The Gantry
by Hawkins\Brown
Digital Constructivism: Democratising the Digital
by Theo Sarantoglou Lalis, LASSA Architects
Panels, Polygons and Pixels: How Data Informs Supertall Tower Design
by SHoP Architects
Final Word
by Kostas Terzidis
About the Author :
Rob Hyde is an architect and academic at the Manchester School of Architecture, leading the Masters Professional Studies Unit. He co-founded the Complexity Planning & Urbanism (CPU) MArch Design Studio Atelier and co-founded/co-directs the associated CPU Research Lab. Professionally active locally, nationally and internationally, he is a member of the RIBA North West Practice and Education Committees.
Filippos Filippidis is an architect and computational design specialist at Complexity Planning &Urbanism (CPU) research laboratory for Manchester School of Architecture. He has extensive experience working across all scales after working in practices such as ecologicStudio, Robofold, Acconci Studio, Foster + Partners Bryden Wood. He has also taught design studios and workshops at Brighton University and AA Visiting School Melbourne.
