Title & Author:

The disruptors : technology-driven architect-entrepreneurs / guest-edited by Dennis Shelden.

Publication:

Oxford : John Wiley & Sons, 2020.

Description:

136 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Series:

Architectural design ; vol. 90,02
Profile ; no. 264

Notes:
"March/April 2020."
Includes bibliographical references.
About the guest-editor Dennis Shelden -- Entrepreneurial practice: new possibilities for a reconfiguring profession / Dennis Shelden -- Empowering design: Gehry Partners, Gehry Technologies, and architect-led industry change / Frank Gehry, Meaghan Lloyd and Dennis Shelden -- The evolution of a specialised practice: consulting and contractinig in the integrated envelope delivery industry / Marc Simmons -- New models of building: the business of technology / David Fano and Daniel Davis -- Disrupting from the inside: UK Archipreneurs / Helen Castle -- Is bigger better? The rise of specialisation in professional practice / Jampes P. Cramer and Scott Simpson -- Design, data and liveability: the role of technology within the future of an expanded profession / Ben van Berkel -- Collaborative networks of robotic construction / Philip F. Yuan and Chao Yan -- The distractions of disruptions: technical supply in an era of social demand / Phil Bernstein -- Better development: alternative value creation / Jared della Valle -- Architecture at scale: reimagining one-off projects as building platforms / Craig Curtis -- Automation and machine learning in architecture: a new agenda for performance-driven design / Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson -- Anti-entrepreneurs: using computation to unscale production / Jesse Louis-Rosenberg and Jessica Rosenkrantz -- Architects=Innovators (sometimes) Innovators [do not equal] Entrepreneurs (most of the time) / Greg Lynn -- On reflection: beautifully disrupted architectural art / Neil Spiller.

Summary:

Technology-driven disruption and entrepreneurial response have become profound drivers of change in modern culture. Wholly new organizations have rapidly emerged in many fields including retail, print media and transportation, often dramatically altering both the products and processes that define these industries. Architecture has until now been minimally impacted by this technologically driven upheaval. But there are many signs that this period of tranquility is ending. Startups are proliferating, targeting diverse innovations from environmental performance to large-scale 3D printing. Traditional architecture and engineering firms are creating incubators and spin-offs to capitalise on their innovations. Large and innovative organisations from outside the professions are becoming interested in the built environment as the next platform for technological and economic disruption. These new directions for the discipline will potentially create radically new types of practice, new building typologies, and new ways for both design professionals and societies to engage with the built environment. It is crucial that architectural discourse addresses these possibilities, and begins to embrace technology-driven entrepreneurship as a central theme for the future of architectural practice.

ISBN:

9781119555094 (paperback)
1119555094 (paperback)
(ePub ebook)
9781119555070
(PDF ebook)
9781119555087

Subject:

Architectural design.
Technological innovations Economic aspects.
Entrepreneurship Technological innovations.
Design architectural.
Innovations Aspect économique.
Entrepreneuriat Innovations.

Added entries:

Shelden, Dennis, editor, contributor.
Gehry, Frank O., 1929- contributor.
Berkel, Ben van, 1957- contributor.
Cramer, James P., contributor.
Simpson, Scott (Architect), contributor.
Yuan, Philip F., contributor.
Bernstein, Phillip (Phillip Gordon), 1957- contributor.
Della Valle, Jared, 1971- contributor.
Lynn, Greg, contributor.
Spiller, Neil, contributor.
Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 90, no. 2.
Profile (Chichester, England) ; no. 264.

Holdings:

Location: Library main periodicals 308349
Call No.: W.A755
Copy: v. 90, no. 02 (Feb./Mar. 2020)
Status: Available