The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992 - 2012

Now almost 20 years old, the digital turn in architecture has already gone through several stages and phases. Architectural Design (AD) has captured them all from folding to cyberspace, nonlinearity and hypersurfaces, from versioning to scripting, emergence, information modelling and parametricism. It has recorded and interpreted the spirit of the times with vivid documentary precision, fostering and often anticipating crucial architectural and theoretical developments. This anthology of AD s most salient articles is chronologically and thematically arranged to provide a complete historical timeline of the recent rise to pre-eminence of computer-based design and production. Mario Carpo provides an astute overview of the recent history of digital design in his comprehensive introductory essay and in his leaders to each original text. A much needed pedagogical and research tool for students and scholars, this synopsis also relates the present state of digitality in architecture to the history and theory of its recent development and trends, and raises issues of crucial importance for the contemporary practice of the design professions. A comprehensive anthology on digital architecture edited by one of its most eminent scholars in this field, Mario Carpo. Includes seminal texts by Bernard Cache, Peter Eisenman, John Frazer, Charles Jencks, Greg Lynn, Achim Menges and Patrik Schumacher. Features key works by FOA, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Ali Rahim, Lars Spuybroek/NOX, Kas Oosterhuis and SHoP.

Now almost 20 years old, the digital turn in architecture hasalready gone through several stages and phases. ArchitecturalDesign (AD) has captured them all - from foldingto cyberspace, nonlinearity and hypersurfaces, from versioning toscripting, emergence, information modelling and parametricism. Ithas recorded and interpreted the spirit of the times with vividdocumentary precision, fostering and often anticipating crucialarchitectural and theoretical developments. This anthology ofAD's most salient articles is chronologically andthematically arranged to provide a complete historical timeline ofthe recent rise to pre-eminence of computer-based design andproduction. Mario Carpo provides an astute overview of the recenthistory of digital design in his comprehensive introductory essayand in his leaders to each original text. A much needed pedagogicaland research tool for students and scholars, this synopsis alsorelates the present state of digitality in architecture to thehistory and theory of its recent development and trends, and raisesissues of crucial importance for the contemporary practice of thedesign professions.* A comprehensive anthology on digital architecture edited by oneof its most eminent scholars in this field, Mario Carpo.* Includes seminal texts by Bernard Cache, Peter Eisenman, JohnFrazer, Charles Jencks, Greg Lynn, Achim Menges and PatrikSchumacher.* Features key works by FOA, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Ali RahimLars Spuybroek/NOX, Kas Oosterhuis and SHoP.

8 IntroductionTwenty Years of Digital Design15 Architecture After the Age of Printing (1992)Visions Unfolding: Architecture in the Age of Electronic Media AD September-October 1992Peter EisenmanThe Affects of Singularity AD November-December 1992Peter Eisenman28 Folding in Architecture (1993)Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, the Pliant and the Supple AD March-April 1993Greg LynnShoei Yoh, Prefectura Gymnasium AD March-April 1993Greg Lynn48 The Architectural Relevance of Cyberspace (1995)The Architectural Relevance of Cyberspace AD November-December 1995John FrazerArchitectural Experiments AD November-December 1995John Frazer57 The Digital and the Global (1996)Yokohama International Port Terminal AD July-August 1996Foreign Office Architects62 Field Conditions (1997)From Object to Field AD May-June 1997Stan Allen80 Nonlinear Architecture (1997)Nonlinear Architecture: New Science = New Architecture? AD September-October 1997Charles JencksLandform Architecture: Emergent in the Nineties AD September-October 1997Charles Jencks108 Hypersurfaces (1998)Motor Geometry AD May-June 1998Lars SpuybroekSalt Water Live: Behaviour of the Salt Water Pavilion AD May-June 1998Kas Oosterhuis124 Embryologic Houses (2000)Embryologic Houses AD May-June 2000Greg Lynn131 Versioning (2002)Introduction to Versioning: Evolutionary Techniques in Architecture AD September-October 2002SHoP/Sharples Holden PasquarelliEroding the Barriers AD September-October 2002SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli146 Topological Architecture (1998-2003)Bernard Cache/Objectile: Topological Architecture and the Ambiguous Sign AD May-June 1998Stephen PerrellaPhilibert De L'Orme Pavilion: Towards an Associative Architecture AD March-April 2003Bernard Cache158 Morphogenesis and Emergence (2004-2006)Introduction to Emergence: Morphogenetic Design Strategies AD May-June 2004Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael WeinstockPolymorphism AD March-April 2006Achim Menges182 Scripting (2006)20 Years of Scripted Space AD July-August 2006Malcolm McCullough188 Collective Intelligence (2006)Introduction to Collective Intelligence in Design AD September-October 2006Christopher Hight and Chris PerryComputational Intelligence: The Grid as a Post-Human Network AD September-October 2006Philippe Morel208 Elegance (2007)The Economies of Elegance, Migrating Coastlines: Residential Tower, Dubai AD January-February 2007Ali Rahim and Hina JamelleDeus ex Machina: From Semiology to the Elegance of Aesthetics AD January-February 2007Mark Foster Gage226 Building Information Modelling (2009)Optimisation Stories: The Impact of Building InformationModelling on Contemporary Design Practice AD March-April 2009Richard Garber240 A New Global Style (2009)Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design AD July-August 2009Patrik Schumacher258 Index