Colletti, Marjan, 1972- author.

Digital poetics : an open theory of design-research in architecture / Marjan Colletti.

Farnham, Surrey : Ashgate Publishing Limited, [2013]

xxiv, 262 pages ; 22 cm.

Design research in architecture

This book celebrates the architectural design exuberance made possible by new digital modelling techniques and fabrication technologies. By presenting an unconventional and original humanistic theory of CAD, the author suggests that beyond the generation of innovative engineering forms, digital design has the potential to affect the wider complex cultural landscape of today in profound ways. The book is organised around a synthetic and hybrid research methodology: a contemporary, propositional and theoretical discursive investigation and a design-led empirical research. Both methods inform a critical construct that deals with the nature, forms, and laws of digitality within a contemporary architectural discourse that affects practice and academia. The chapters spiral at, from, towards, around, outside-inwards and back inside-out digitality, its cognitive phenomena, spatial properties and intrinsic capabilities to achieve, or at least, approach Digital Poetics. The book presents speculative and small-scale constructed projects that pioneer techniques and experiments with common 3D and 4D software packages, whereby the focus lies not on the drawing processes and mechanics, but on the agency and impact the image achieves on the reader and observer.

9781409445234 (paperback ; alk. paper)
1409445232 (paperback ; alk. paper)
(ebook)
9781409445241
(epub)
9781409471943

Architectural design Data processing.
Design architectural Informatique.
Architektur
CAD

Design research in architecture.

Location: Library main 296874
Call No.: BIB 243192
Status: Available