Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture [Paperback]

Branko Kolarevic (Author), Kevin Klinger (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0415775752 | ISBN-13: 978-0415775755 | Publication Date: December 26, 2008 | Edition: 1

Designers are becoming more directly involved in the fabrication process from the earliest stages of design. This book showcases the design and research work by some of the leading designers, makers and thinkers today.

This highly illustrated text brings together a wealth of information and numerous examples from practice which will appeal to both students and practitioners.

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About the Author

Branko Kolarevic is the Haworth Chair in Integrated Design and Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Calgary, Canada.

Kevin Klinger is the Director of the Institute for Digital Fabrication, with the Center for Media Design, and Associate Professor of Architecture at Ball State University in Indiana, USA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415775752
• ISBN-13: 978-0415775755
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 9.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #124,810 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Branko Kolarevic is a professor of architecture at the University of Calgary in Canada, where he holds the Chair in Integrated Design. He has lectured worldwide on the use of digital technologies in design and production and has taught since 1989 at several universities in North America and Asia. He is the past president of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) and is the recipient of the ACADIA 2007 Award for Innovative Research. He holds doctoral and master's degrees in design from Harvard University and a diploma engineer in architecture degree from the University of Belgrade.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Another excellent book on Digi-architecture, February 11, 2010

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This review is from: Manufacturing Material Effects: Rethinking Design and Making in Architecture (Paperback)

Materials and effects are age-old themes of architecture.
Tectonics, joinery, and permanence are the key themes that
resurface over and over again in the theory and practice of
architecture. Now the grounds are fast shifting due to awesome
new tools available for architects.

Digital parametric design and manufacturing process has freed
"formal imagination" and "material imagination".
In this volume, use of materials and their aftermath
effects are pushed to edge. Using both emergent materials
and innovative application of conventional materials,
desired dynamic and adaptive formal/surface/spatial
effects are achieved.

Beginning with introductory essay by Prof. Kolarevic and
Prof. Klinger,the book introduces case studies of multiple
architects, researchers, and vendors. Key built projects by
Herzog de Meuron, SHoP, Barkow Leibinger, SANAA, OMA, etc
focus on the actual materiality and fabrication aspect.
Experimental projects are as much provoking, if not more,
as built projects.

This is a key publication (along with "Architecture in the
Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing", edited by Prof. Kolarevic)
for those who seek cutting-edge architectural technology,
innovative material application, and pioneering spatial effect-making.