Title & Author:

Persistent modelling : extending the role of architectural representation / edited by Phil Ayres.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2012.

Description:

xv, 204 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: persistent modeling -- reconsidering relations / Phil Ayres -- The historical context of contemporary architectural representation / Alberto Pérez-Gómez -- The persistence of faith in the intangible model / Mark Burry -- Intention and the user / Ranulph Glanville -- A communications primer revisited / Omar Khan -- A suggested model of a-functional architecture / Stephen Gage -- Modelling modelling: trajectories in developing instrumental design process / Michael U. Hensel -- Design issues of time-based phenomena and the notion of a persistent model: a parametric exploration of acoustic performance / Brady Peters -- Defining adequate models for adaptive architecture / Sean Hanna -- The death of determinism / Jordan Brandt -- The fall / Rachel Cruise -- Persisting with material: engaging material behaviour within the digital environment / Paul Nicholas -- The active model: a calibration of material intent / Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and Martin Tamke -- Beneficial change: the case for robotics in architecture / Tristan d'Estrée Sterk -- The building and its double: entropic modelling in the Hylozoic soil series / Philip Beesley [and others] -- Persistent approaches to designing functionally graded materials / Sarat Babu.

Summary:

With contributions from some of the world's most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book is essential reading for anyone looking at new ways of thinking about the digital within architecture. It speculates upon implications of Persistent Modelling for architectural practice, reconsidering the relationship between architectural representation and architectural artefact particularly in the fields of responsive and adaptive architectures. -- Product Description.

ISBN:

9780415594066 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
0415594065 (hbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415594073 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415594073 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780203782545 (ebk)
0203782542 (ebk)

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture.
Representation (Philosophy)
Design architectural.
Représentation (Philosophie)
architecture (discipline)
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Ästhetik

Added entries:

Ayres, Phil.

Extending the role of architectural representation

Holdings:

Location: Library main 278071
Call No.: BIB 213462
Status: Available