An edition of Architecture's New Media (2004)

Architecture's New Media

Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design

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An edition of Architecture's New Media (2004)

Architecture's New Media

Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design

"Computer-aided design (CAD) technology has already changed the practice of architecture, and it has the potential to change it even more radically. With Architectures New Media Yehuda Kalay offers a comprehensive exposition of the principles, methods, and practices that underlie architectural computing. He discusses the aspects of information technology that are pertinent to architectural design, analyzes the benefits and drawbacks of particular computational methods, and looks at the potential of emerging computational techniques to affect the future of architectural design." "CAD technology, introduced in the postwar era and adopted to everyday architectural practice beginning in the 1970s, is now so indispensable that, as William Mitchell observes in his foreword, architectural practice without it is "as unimaginable as writing without a word processor." Yet, Kalay argues, it has had little qualitative effect. This book provides a detailed introduction for practitioners, educators, students, and researchers to aspects of CAD that go beyond the improvements in drafting, modeling, and rendering for which it is commonly used. Computer-aided architectural design (CAAD) is capable of modeling and manipulating objects (not merely their graphical representations), reasoning about and predicting performance of design solutions, generating new design solutions through algorithmic and other methods, managing vast amounts of information, and taking advantage of opportunities offered by the Internet for collaboration across time and space and for design of the virtual "space" of the Internet itself."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
The MIT Press
Language
English
Pages
556

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Library of Congress
NA2728.K35 2004, NA2728 .K35 2004

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
556
Dimensions
9.1 x 8.2 x 1.3 inches
Weight
3 pounds

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL10237231M
Internet Archive
architecturesnew0000kala
ISBN 10
0262112841
ISBN 13
9780262112840
LCCN
2003066646
OCLC/WorldCat
53276767
Library Thing
2318832
Goodreads
535537

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