Tooling

Pamphlet Architecture

by Benjamin Aranda, Chris Lasch, Cecil Balmond (Foreword by)

We all know that today's architectural design has moved from the sketchpad to the screenthe era of the Mayline and the drafting board now seems downright Paleolithicbut techniques for using the computer not just as a tool for rendering but as a generative instrument remain woefully unexplored. In Tooling , the latest installment in our renowned Pamphlet Architecture series, the technologically progressive young firm Aranda/Lasch illustrates how advanced computational methods and algorithmic codes can be used to foster architectural design. Tooling explores patterns generated by computer codes that in turn create an organizational template assembling projects. By openly sharing these codes, the authors seek to foster further investigation into their methods, allowing other architects to model and evolve more critical and insightful geometries and patterns.

Genres: Architecture

96 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

Reviews

[engkiat · Rating 5 out of 5]

Covering 7 forms of script-based form creation, it gives a good summary of the current techniques used in architecture theses days. A pity then that the website supporting this book is (as of now) still under construction, because it would have been an excellent platform to download the open-source scripts and fiddle with them. Whether or not the current craze with digital architecture (and Deleuze in general) is just a fad, this book is an useful introduction to the techniques currently employed by major architects around the world.

[Douglas Pearce · Rating 4 out of 5]

A succinct overview of nature's algorithms with excellent illustrations and applied examples in architecture.