Future Details of Architecture
Mark Garcia
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Description for Future Details of Architecture
Paperback. Despite the exaggerated news of the untimely 'death of the detail' by Greg Lynn, the architectural detail is now more lifelike and active than ever before. Editor(s): Garcia, Mark. Series: Architectural Design. Num Pages: 144 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 275 x 211 x 10. Weight in Grams: 606.
Despite the exaggerated news of the untimely 'death of the detail' by Greg Lynn, the architectural detail is now more lifelike and active than ever before. In this era of digital design and production technologies, new materials, parametrics, building information modeling (BIM), augmented realities and the nano-bio-information-computation consilience, the detail is now an increasingly vital force in architecture. Though such digitally designed and produced details are diminishing in size to the molecular and nano levels, they are increasingly becoming more complex, multi-functional, high performance and self-replicating. Far from being a non-essential and final finish, this new type of highly evolved ... Read more
Despite the exaggerated news of the untimely 'death of the detail' by Greg Lynn, the architectural detail is now more lifelike and active than ever before. In this era of digital design and production technologies, new materials, parametrics, building information modeling (BIM), augmented realities and the nano-bio-information-computation consilience, the detail is now an increasingly vital force in architecture. Though such digitally designed and produced details are diminishing in size to the molecular and nano levels, they are increasingly becoming more complex, multi-functional, high performance and self-replicating. Far from being a non-essential and final finish, this new type of highly evolved ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Architectural Design
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781118522530
SKU
V9781118522530
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About Mark Garcia
Mark Garcia is a consultant, researcher and academic. He is currently a lecturer, teaching Unit 4, the architectural design studio in the School of Architecture, Design and Construction at the University of Greenwich in London. He has held academic teaching and management posts at St. Antony's College (Oxford University) and in the Departments of Architecture and Industrial Design Engineering at ... Read more
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