Despite the exaggerated news of the untimely 'death of the detail'
by Greg Lynn, the architectural detail is now more lifelike and
active than ever before. In this era of digital design and
production technologies, new materials, parametrics, building
information modeling (BIM), augmented realities and the
nano-bio-information-computation consilience, the detail is now an
increasingly vital force in architecture. Though such digitally
designed and produced details are diminishing in size to the
molecular and nano levels, they are increasingly becoming more
complex, multi-functional, high performance and self-replicating.
Far from being a non-essential and final finish, this new type of
highly evolved high-tech detail is rapidly becoming the
indispensable and critical core, the (sometimes iconic) DNA of an
innovative new species of built environmental form that is spawning
in scale and prominence, across product, interior, urban and
landscape design. This issue of AD re-examines the history,
theories and design of the world's most significant spatial
details, and explores their innovative potentials and possibilities
for the future of architecture.
Contributors include: Rachel Armstrong, Nic Clear, Edward Ford,
Dennis Shelden, Skylar Tibbits.
Featured architects: Ben van Berkel, Hernan Diaz Alonso, Peter
Macapia, Carlo Ratti, Philippe Rahm, Patrik Schumacher, Neil
Spiller.
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