Today s explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. From the preliminary sketch all the way to the production of individual building components, digital tools offer new possibilities that were still inconceivable just a few years ago. This volume provides a profound introduction to the important role of digital technologies in design and execution. In four chapters, the author systematically examines the influence of digital culture on architecture but also on the urban landscape as well as product design. The relationship of digital architecture to the city is also an important focus.
Contents
People, Computers and Architecture: A Historical Overview
Experiments in Form and Performance
From Tectonic to Ornament: Towards a Different Materiality
The city in the Digital Sprawl
Material Continuity and the Design Practice
Antoine Picon ist Ingenieur der Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Lehrer für Architekturgeschichte und -theorie an der Harvard Graduate School of Design und eine der international bekannten Figuren auf dem Gebiet der digitalen Technologien.
