Prototyping for Architects: Real Building for the Next Generation of Digital Designers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780500343050)

Prototyping is an essential part of designers' repertoires, allowing them to test their projects from structural, aesthetic, and technical standpoints. Prototyping for Architects examines how architects are combining new digital design and fabrication technologies with traditional hands-on building techniques to gain more insight into the strengths and weaknesses of their designs.

Beginning with an introduction charting the rise of prototyping in design history, this cutting-edge volume for students and professionals presents an extensive range of prototyping techniques, followed by a selection of 30 projects by leading contemporary international architects.

Jane and Mark Burry explain how prototyping at a miniature scale helps communicate complex spatial ideas; how prototyping empowers the architect-designer to test and prove a building's feasibility; and how additive (3D printing) or subtractive (robotic milling) prototyping can lead to exciting new design possibilities. A reference section, which includes a glossary of technical terms, offers further information and clarification.

Author: Jane Burry, Mark Burry
ISBN-10: 0500343055
ISBN-13: 9780500343050
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Language: English
Published: 08/16/2016
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.75lbs
Size: 9.30h x 8.60w x 1.20d