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Digital Fabrications is a collection of essays and half-true
stories about design software and hardware. Written from the
perspective of architectural design, each piece expands on emerging
trends, devices, foibles, and phenomena engendered by an increased
reliance on interactions with interfaces in the discipline. The
essays ask: how do we characterise our post-digital design labour?
What are the politics of design software? How is architecture
adapting to a world largely dependent on platforms and scripts?
What are the spatial mechanisms of the internet and VR? Using
storytelling techniques, this book accepts that software is
everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways it has taken command of
our cultural products. From the perspective of architectural
design, a field traditionally associated with sketching and its own
myths of creativity, computers are an essential workplace tool.
Projects rely on a wide assortment of software packages and
standalone applications, but rarely do architects reflect on the
structure of those programs or how they have infiltrated our
disciplinary conventions. PDFs and JPGs are as much a part of our
vocabulary as plans, sections, and elevations. A drawing today
might refer to a rendering, a CAD document, a proprietary BIM file,
or anything that describes a project visually. While one way of
examining this disciplinary shift might be to re-imagine what
digital drawing can be, this collection of essays puts forth
another way: to look at the behaviours, phenomena, collective
trends, and oddities emerging as a result of global software
proliferation. In other words, this book accepts that software is
everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways it has taken command of
our cultural products.
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