Reviews
"We grew accustomed to live together with machines, which provide us endless access to information. Our computational companions, now in our pockets, have had also a profound impact on how we foresee future scenarios of transformation and change. Now is the moment that we reconsider critically the emergence of new paradigms and protocols that computation has determined within architecture, and this collection of essays establishes a potent cornerstone of a much needed history of that recent past." Fabrizio Gallanti, associate director, Canadian Centre for Architecture "It establishes a dialogue between the different fields that question, research, and apply recent digital developments. As such it provides a platform for discussion and questioning, as well as learning." Nathalie Rozencwajg, co-founder of RARE architecture and unit master, Architectural Association, UK "Architecture in Formation expands digital scholarship beyond the tools of creation and the fabricated products to include the theory, processes, and pedagogy of design. This book could serve as a fundamental tool for identifying current trends in digital architecture today that could cross many disciplines." Gregory A. Luhan, Associate Dean for Research, University of Kentucky, USA, "We grew accustomed to live together with machines, which provide us endless access to information. Our computational companions, now in our pockets, have had also a profound impact on how we foresee future scenarios of transformation and change. Now is the moment that we reconsider critically the emergence of new paradigms and protocols that computation has determined within architecture, and this collection of essays establishes a potent cornerstone of a much needed history of that recent past." Fabrizio Gallanti, Associate Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture, "We grew accustomed to live together with machines, which provide us endless access to information. Our computational companions, now in our pockets, have had also a profound impact on how we foresee future scenarios of transformation and change. Now is the moment that we reconsider critically the emergence of new paradigms and protocols that computation has determined within architecture, and this collection of essays establishes a potent cornerstone of a much needed history of that recent past." Fabrizio Gallanti, associate director, Canadian Centre for Architecture "It establishes a dialogue between the different fields that question, research, and apply recent digital developments. As such it provides a platform for discussion and questioning, as well as learning." Nathalie Rozencwajg, co-founder of RARE architecture and unit master, Architectural Association, UK "Architecture in Formation expands digital scholarship beyond the tools of creation and the fabricated products to include the theory, processes, and pedagogy of design. This book could serve as a fundamental tool for identifying current trends in digital architecture today that could cross many disciplines." Gregory A. Luhan, Associate Dean for Research, University of Kentucky, USA "Part provocation, part manifesto-by-committee, part historical benchmark, Architecture in Formation is designed as the digital architecture manual for the second digital revolution. Anticipating a merger between theory and practice, the book combines formerly unpublished essays and interviews with architecture professionals, musing on how information processing creates, and is changed by, architecture." Amelia Taylor-Hochberg, Editorial Manager, Archinect, "We grew accustomed to live together with machines, which provide us endless access to information. Our computational companions, now in our pockets, have had also a profound impact on how we foresee future scenarios of transformation and change. Now is the moment that we reconsider critically the emergence of new paradigms and protocols that computation has determined within architecture, and this collection of essays establishes a potent cornerstone of a much needed history of that recent past." Fabrizio Gallanti, associate director, Canadian Centre for Architecture, "We grew accustomed to live together with machines, which provide us endless access to information. Our computational companions, now in our pockets, have had also a profound impact on how we foresee future scenarios of transformation and change. Now is the moment that we reconsider critically the emergence of new paradigms and protocols that computation has determined within architecture, and this collection of essays establishes a potent cornerstone of a much needed history of that recent past." Fabrizio Gallanti, associate director, Canadian Centre for Architecture "It establishes a dialogue between the different fields that question, research, and apply recent digital developments. As such it provides a platform for discussion and questioning, as well as learning." Nathalie Rozencwajg, co-founder of RARE architecture and unit master, Architectural Association, UK "Architecture in Formation expands digital scholarship beyond the tools of creation and the fabricated products to include the theory, processes, and pedagogy of design. This book could serve as a fundamental tool for identifying current trends in digital architecture today that could cross many disciplines." Gregory A. Luhan, Associate Dean for Research, University of Kentucky, USA
Table of Content
1. Structuring Information: Toward an Architecture of Information Georges Teyssot, Mario Carpo, Patrik Schumacher, Bernard Cache, Mark Linder, David Theodore, Evan Douglis, Rocker-Lange Architects, Antoine Picon 2. Information Interfaces: Data and Information George Legendre, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Mark Bury, Yehuda Kalay, Omar Khan, Jason Kelly Johnson, Alejandro Zaera-Polo and Maider Llaguno Munitxa, Michael Wen-Sen Su 3. Responsive Information Alessandra Ponte, Anna Dyson, Bess Krietemeyer, Peter Stark, Philippe Rahm, Lydia Kallipoliti, Alexandros Tsamis, Neeraj Bhatia, Jenny Sabin, Luc Courschene, Chris Perry 4. Evolutionary Information Karl Chu, Eisenman Architects, Preston Scott Cohen, Michael Hansmeyer, Chandler Ahrens, Andrew Saunders, Alexis Meier 5. Extensive Information: Material Information Ciro Najle, Nader Tehrani, Saturo Sugihara, Jesse Reiser + Nanako Umemoto, Roland Snooks, Philip Beesley, Achim Menges 6. Information Affect Greg Lynn, Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger, Michael Young, Eric Goldemberg, Francois Roche, Ruy Klein, Martin Bressani, Chandler Ahrens and John Carpenter
