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Digital Cities Guest editor Neil Leach (University of Bath)

Digital Cities By Guest editor Neil Leach (University of Bath)

Digital Cities by Guest editor Neil Leach (University of Bath)


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Summary

Digital Cities looks at the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities, and how they might be used to help architects and designers operate at the urban scale, and design cities in a new way. Brings together work from established designers and theorists with work from emerging young talent and exciting new voices.

Digital Cities Summary

Digital Cities by Guest editor Neil Leach (University of Bath)

Guest-edited by Neil Leach

What is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years, the profound impact of computer-aided techniques on architecture has been well charted. From the use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of generative design tools and parametric modelling, digital technologies have come to play a major role in architectural production. But how are they helping architects and designers to operate at the urban scale? And how might they be changing the way in which we perceive and understand our cities?

  • Features some of the worlds leading experimental practices, such as Zaha Hadid Architects, R&Sie(n), Biothing and Xefirotarch.
  • Takes in exciting emerging practices, such as moh architects, kokkugia and THEVERYMANY, and work by students at some of the most progressive schools, such as the AA, Dessau Institute of Architecture and RMIT.
  • Contributors include: Michael Batty, Benjamin Bratton, Alain Chiaradia, Manuel DeLanda, Vicente Guallart and Peter Trummer.

About Guest editor Neil Leach (University of Bath)

Neil Leach is Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Brighton, and visiting professor at the University of Southern California. He has also taught at the Architectural Association, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell University, Dessau Institute of Architecture and SCI-Arc. He is the author, editor and translator of many books, including Rethinking Architecture (Routledge 1997), The Anaesthetics of Architecture (MIT Press, 1999), Designing for a Digital World (John Wiley & Sons, 2002) and Digital Tectonics (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), and was co-curator of the (Im)material Processes: New Digital Techniques for Architecture exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing in 2008.

Table of Contents

Editorial (Helen Castle).

Introduction: Digital Cities (Neil Leach).

Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design (Patrik Schumacher).

Experiments in Associative Urbanism (Tom Verebes).

Chlorofilia, the Los Angeles Jungle (Neil Leach featuring Hernan Diaz Alonso).

Ive Heard About (A Flat, Fat, Growing Urban Experiment) Extract of Neighbourhood Protocols (Francois Roche).

A Digital Breeder for Designing Cities (Michael Batty).

The Limits of Urban Simulation: An Interview with Manuel DeLanda (Neil Leach).

Swarm Urbanism (Neil Leach).

Morphogenetic Urbanism (Peter Trummer).

Digital Towers (Neil Leach).

Spatial Design Economies (Alain Chiaradia).

Hyperhabitat: Reprogramming the World (Neil Leach featuring Vicente Guallart).

iPhone City (Benjamin H Bratton).

Jan Kaplicky (19372009): Homage to an Extraordinary Life of Unfulfilled Dreams and Major Successes (Ivan Margolius).

Interior Eye.

Alice Tully Hall, New York (Jayne Merkel).

Building Profile.

The Feildbarn (David Littlefield).

Userscape.

Lighting Up (Valentina Croci).

Yeangs Eco-Files.

Seawater Greenhouses and the Sahara Forest Project (Ken Yeang and Michael Pawlyn).

Unit Factor.

Parallel Indexing: Infrastructure and Space (Holger Kehne and Jeff Turko).

McLeans Nuggets (Will McLean).

Spillers Bits.

Parallel Biological Futures (Neil Spiller).

Site Lines.

FREEZE: A Celebration of Design in the Modern North (Brian Carter).

Additional information

GOR007069993
9780470773000
0470773006
Digital Cities by Guest editor Neil Leach (University of Bath)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
John Wiley & Sons Inc
2009-06-26
136
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