Digital architecture now : a global survey of emerging talent / by Neil Spiller.
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2008Description: 400p. ill. ([chiefly col.]; 28 cm001: 12141ISBN: 9780500342473; 0500342474Subject(s): Architectural design | Computer aided design | Architecture - ModernDDC classification: 724.7 SPIItem type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Presenting the hottest architectural visionaries from around the world, Digital Architecture Now celebrates the conceptual architects who are pushing digital design and software to their limits. In his introduction and concluding essay, Neil Spiller places this contemporary work in the context of recent developments and considers the future direction of digital architecture. The heart of the book features architects' best projects, presented in vivid, colourful and breathtaking detail through texts, plans and renderings that challenge our assumptions about 3-D space and redefine the future of architecture.
Includes index
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Since the mid-1990s, architect and educator Spiller (architecture & digital theory, Bartlett Sch., Univ. Coll. London) has been writing about the intersections between architecture and technology; his Visionary Architecture documents the history of technology and architecture in the 20th century, and in Digital Dreams he explored the possibilities of the developing digital world. His latest book illustrates current digital architecture by 40 architects from the United States and Europe. Three or more projects from each architect are accompanied by short descriptions of the designers and their work. Projects range from spectacular built works and exhibition pieces to fantastical unrealized designs. Brief entries in the biographies section in the back of the book provide additional information about the architects, and a glossary helps readers unfamiliar with the terminology. Useful as a snapshot of current work in this field and a road map of influential or emerging architects to watch; recommended for architecture libraries.-Amy Trendler, Ball State Univ. Libs., Muncie, IN (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.There are no comments on this title.