Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #106015 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

Synopsis
The latest instalment in the renowned "Pamphlet Architecture series" features the technologically progressive young firm Aranda/Lasch, illustrating their use of advanced computational methods and algorithmic code in architectural design. Tooling is broken down into seven sections: blending, cracking, flocking, losing, packing, spiralling, and weaving, each corresponding to a pattern generated by computer codes, which in turn creates an organizational template for putting projects together - from building materials to large-scale populations. Each section is broken down through a simple recipe that describes the organizational template; sketches and geometric diagrams of that recipe; an architectural project that utilizes the algorithms; and finally the computer code of the various algorithms created for the book.

Customer Reviews

Let down...
This book is really nicely produced and the content is interesting.

But don't buy it if you actually expect to get your hands on the code mentioned in the synopsis. I bought it mainly for the code and when it arrived there's just a page that says the code is available online. I went to the site and it says it's coming soon, pretty poor considering it was published over two years ago. I even emailed the author and had no reply.