{"product_id":"building-futures-isbn-9781119829218","title":"Building Futures","description":"BUILDING FUTURES \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn approach to Information Modeling engaging concepts of equality, sustainability, and labor as they relate to environment and architectural practice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding Futures: Technology, Ecology, and Architectural Practice\u003c\/i\u003e explores how architects, and the buildings and environments we create, can engage future realities, both abstract and readily understood. These range from climate change and public health to advanced ideas about manufacture and construction. The text demonstrates multiple and hybrid paths in which building information modeling (BIM) and outgrowth technological processes including environmental simulation and human-robot interaction can be utilized in today’s contemporary context, expanding the architect’s agency by focusing on a more conceptual, and ecological, basis for our work. Moving beyond a basic understanding of the role of computation in architecture and design, the work shows how to think critically and speculatively about technology’s deeper and more lasting impacts on both architecture and society. Topics covered in \u003ci\u003eBuilding Futures\u003c\/i\u003e include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Technology: information modeling and the relationship between computational and real objects, new approaches to coding in architectural design, and direct-to-manufacture workflows\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Environment: understanding part-to-whole relationships at a variety of scales and the interconnectedness of things, post-subjective architectural approaches to ecology, and new ideas about sustainability \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Practice: revisiting architecture by remote control in the time of new global challenges, and novel ideas about creativity, authorship, and professionalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesign professionals and practice leaders grappling with the relationship of technology to design pedagogy will use \u003ci\u003eBuilding Futures\u003c\/i\u003e to better theorize and execute their architectural vision. Students in upper-level courses studying technique and theory will also find value in the work, which prepares incoming professionals for the major changes that the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry may undergo in the coming years and decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book prompts us to consider simulating events where architecture and architects could mitigate, redirect or develop contingencies, in relation to the environment, flows of material and capital, and other “things” that operate from the immediate, through to almost geological timescales.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Foreword by Robert Stuart-Smith, Director of the Autonomous Manufacturing Lab, University of Pennsylvania \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003exi Foreword\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Introduction: Building Futures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Part 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Chapter 1 On Technology I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Chapter 2 Morphosis’s Immaterial Moments in the Making of Things\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Chapter 3 on Technology II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e58 Chapter 4 UNStudio’s Future Lifecycles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e81 Part 2\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e82 Chapter 5 On Ecology I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e94 Chapter 6 Zaha Hadid’s Circular Economy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e118 Chapter 7 on Ecology II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e132 Chapter 8 Winka Dubbeldam’s Synthetic Natures\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e153 Part 3\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e154 Chapter 9 On Construction I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e166 Chapter 10 Componibile, by Remote Control, GRO Architects\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e178 Chapter 11 on Construction II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e198 Chapter 12 On Practice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e206 Chapter 13 Assembly OSM’s Modular Platforms and Digital Twins\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e224 Chapter 14 A Practical Synopsis\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e235 Index\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Garber, AIA,\u003c\/b\u003e is a founding partner at GRO Architects, whose recent projects include buildings, plans, and communities in a number of US cities. Richard teaches graduate Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and has written numerous books and essays including \u003ci\u003eBIM Design: Realizing the Creative Potential of Building Information Modelling\u003c\/i\u003e (John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons, 2014), and was guest editor of AD \u003ci\u003eClosing the Gap: Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2009).   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn approach to Information Modeling engaging concepts of equality, sustainability, and labor as they relate to environment and architectural practice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding Futures: Technology, Ecology, and Architectural Practice\u003c\/i\u003e explores how architects, and the buildings and environments we create, can engage future realities, both abstract and readily understood. These range from climate change and public health to advanced ideas about manufacture and construction. The text demonstrates multiple and hybrid paths in which building information modeling (BIM) and outgrowth technological processes including environmental simulation and human-robot interaction can be utilized in today’s contemporary context, expanding the architect’s agency by focusing on a more conceptual, and ecological, basis for our work. Moving beyond a basic understanding of the role of computation in architecture and design, the work shows how to think critically and speculatively about technology’s deeper and more lasting impacts on both architecture and society. Topics covered in \u003ci\u003eBuilding Futures\u003c\/i\u003e include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Technology: information modeling and the relationship between computational and real objects, new approaches to coding in architectural design, and direct-to-manufacture workflows\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Environment: understanding part-to-whole relationships at a variety of scales and the interconnectedness of things, post-subjective architectural approaches to ecology, and new ideas about sustainability \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Practice: revisiting architecture by remote control in the time of new global challenges, and novel ideas about creativity, authorship, and professionalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesign professionals and practice leaders grappling with the relationship of technology to design pedagogy will use \u003ci\u003eBuilding Futures\u003c\/i\u003e to better theorize and execute their architectural vision. Students in upper-level courses studying technique and theory will also find value in the work, which prepares incoming professionals for the major changes that the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry may undergo in the coming years and decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The book prompts us to consider simulating events where architecture and architects could mitigate, redirect or develop contingencies, in relation to the environment, flows of material and capital, and other “things” that operate from the immediate, through to almost geological timescales.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Foreword by Robert Stuart-Smith, Director of the Autonomous Manufacturing Lab, University of Pennsylvania\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988866285797,"sku":"NP9781119829218","price":59.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119829218.jpg?v=1761781835","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/building-futures-isbn-9781119829218","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}