Impact

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• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9781119651581
• eBook ISBN: 9781119651598
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture Design

This issue of AD explores the working discipline of architecture as it impacts the material culture within which it is always embedded. An architecture of impact uses advanced digital techniques in such a way that its material assembly supersedesits use of the digital.

Until now, this type of architecture has been formally and materially bound by restrictive conventional methodologies, which the digital project has moved from the scale of installations to three-dimensional building-sized fabrications. Unless architects turn to a new culture ofmaking, architecture shaped by even innovative digital technology will become irrelevant. Architectural projects that are more subversive in how they are created and that lose their digital signature have greater potential to be at the forefront of the discipline's new materialisations. This issue illustrates these ideas and their architectural impact.

Contributors: Kutan Ayata, Ben van Berkel, Hernan Diaz Alonso, David Goldblatt, Thomas Heatherwick, Ferda Kolatan, Ascan Mergenthaler, Antoine Picon, Casey Rehm, Patrik Schumacher, and Philip F Yuan.

Featured architects: Archi-Union, Contemporary Architecture Practice, HDA-X, Heatherwick Studio, Herzog & de Meuron, Ishida Rehm Studio, Pininfarina, SHoP Architects, SU-11, UNStudio, and Young & Ayata, and Zaha Hadid Architects.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Copyright Page
• About the Guest Editors
• Introduction Architectural Impact After the Digital
• Other Experts: Disciplinary and Aesthetic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence
• Novel Bricks: A Scenario of Human–Machine Collaboration
• Tech’s Teaching Moment: The Shape of Culture in the Post-Blob Era
• Genuine Hybrids: Towards an Architecture with No Origin
• Impactful Disruption: Gathered Thoughts of a Distracted Mind
• An Estranged Type: Old Techniques, Familiar Materials and Peculiar Outcomes
• The Impact of Automobile Design on Architecture
• The Mega-Void: Unleashing the Communicative Impact of Tall Buildings
• Aesthetics, Narrative and the Materials of Architecture
• Shanghai Bund: The Impact of Context
• Disjunctive Continuity and the Aesthetics of the Seam
• Material Intricacy
• Beyond Digital Avant- Gardes:The Materiality of Architecture and Its Impact
• Architecture and the Impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution
• From Another Perspective: The Impact of the Digital on Bigg-ness
• Contributors
• What is Architectural Design?
• ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
• FORTHCOMING AD TITLES
• EULA