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About this book
Technology-driven disruption and entrepreneurial response have become profound drivers of change in modern culture. Wholly new organisations have rapidly emerged in many fields including retail, print media and transportation, often dramatically altering both the products and processes that define these industries. Architecture has until now been minimally impacted by this technologically driven upheaval. But there are many signs that this period of tranquillity is ending. Startups are proliferating, targeting diverse innovations from environmental performance to large-scale 3D printing. Traditional architecture and engineering firms are creating incubators and spin-offs to capitalise on their innovations. Large and innovative organisations from outside the professions are becoming interested in the built environment as the next platform for technological and economic disruption. These new directions for the discipline will potentially create radically new types of practice, new building typologies, and new ways for both design professionals and societies to engage with the built environment. It is crucial that architectural discourse addresses these possibilities, and begins to embrace technology-driven entrepreneurship as a central theme for the future of architectural practice.
Contributors: Sandeep Ahuja, Ben van Berkel, Phil Bernstein, Helen Castle, James Cramer and Scott Simpson, Craig Curtis, David Fano and Daniel Davis, Greg Lynn, Jessica Rosenkrantz and Jesse Louis-Rosenberg, Brad Samuels, Marc Simmons, Jared Della Valle, and Philip F Yuan and Chao Yan.
Featured architects: Archi-Union, Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt, Bryden Wood, Gehry Partners, Front, Greg Lynn FORM, Millar Howard Workshop, Nervous System, SITU, and UNStudio.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright Page
- About the Guest-Editor
- Introduction Entrepreneurial Practice: New Possibilities for a Reconfi guring Profession
- Empowering Design: Gehry Partners, Gehry Technologies, and Architect- Led Industry Change
- The Evolution of a Specialised Practice: Consulting and Contracting in the Integrated Envelope Delivery Industry
- New Modelsof Building: The Business of Technology
- Disrupting fromthe Inside: UK Archipreneurs
- Is Bigger Better?: The Rise of Specialisation in Professional Practice
- Design, Dataand Liveability: The Role of Technology Within the Future of an Expanded Profession
- Mind the Gap: Architecture and the Absurdity of Self-Imposed Limitation
- Collaborative Networks of Robotic Construction
- The Distractionsof Disruptions: Technical Supply inan Era of Social Demand
- Better Development: AlternativeValue Creation
- Architectureat Scale: Reimagining One-Off Projects as Building Platforms
- Automation andMachine Learningin Architecture: A New Agenda for Performance-Driven Design
- Anti-Entrepreneurs: Using Computation to Unscale Production
- Architects =Innovators(sometimes)Innovators ≠Entrepreneurs(most of the time)
- From Another Perspective: On Refl ection:Beautifully Disrupted Architectural Art
- Contributors
- EULA