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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Evolution of Architectural Software -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.1. Difficulty of classification -- 1.2. Human-computer interaction -- 1.3. Technological imaginations and consciousness -- 1.3.1. First meetings around the computer -- 1.3.2. "Software", the constitution of a notion -- 1.4. The pioneers -- 1.4.1. The CAD (Computer-Aided Design) project -- 1.4.2. Communicating with the machine, via drawing -- 1.4.3. Representing the information -- 1.4.4. The computer: an entity in its own right -- 1.5. The complex problem of design -- 1.5.1. Generating drawings -- 1.5.2. Improving accurate algorithms -- 1.5.3. Integrating building descriptions -- 1.5.4. Increasing the objects of the design -- 1.6. When industry takes over the software market -- 1.6.1. Drawing programs -- 1.6.2. Representation of spatiality -- 1.7. User interface improvements -- 1.7.1. The questioning of drawing -- 1.7.2. Design with a 3D model -- 1.7.3. Moving images -- 1.8. Architects explore differently -- 1.8.1. The craze for variation -- 1.8.2. Tool-users and tool-makers -- 1.8.3. The connection with the construction (CAD-CAM) -- 1.9. A new bifurcation -- 1.9.1. The end of unique software -- 1.9.2. "More user-friendly" -- 1.9.3. Restoring the simplicity of use -- 1.9.4. Manipulating parameters -- 1.9.5. BIM qualified practices -- 1.10. Conclusion -- 1.11. References -- Chapter 2. Emergence of Pre-digital Algorithmic Design -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Structuralism, generic process and specific object -- 2.3. Architecture as an autonomous formal language -- 2.4. The index sign, connection element of the virtual model to the current instance -- 2.5. Axonometry, diagram and algorithmic process -- 2.6. From the theoretical to the intuitive, from the East Coast to the West Coast.
2.7. Multiple instances: projects and conceptual artifacts -- 2.8. Actual instances and virtual systems -- 2.9. Conclusion -- 2.10. References -- Chapter 3. Mapping the Affinities Between the Non-Standard and the Fold -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Contextual landscapes: the theoretical bias of architecture (1990-2000) -- 3.2.1. Bernard Cache, Greg Lynn, UN Studio, "intercessors" of the Fold -- 3.2.2. Terre Meuble and Folding, two key publications -- 3.2.3. To constitute avant-garde -- 3.3. Contextual landscapes: technological biases (1990-2000) -- 3.3.1. The technological choices of Greg Lynn and Peter Eisenman -- 3.3.2. Bernard Cache's technological choices -- 3.3.3. From pencil to computer mouse -- 3.3.4. Architects who became digital specialists -- 3.3.5. Standardization in question -- 3.3.6. Fascination for the curve -- 3.3.7. Back and forth between theory and practice -- 3.4. Mapping of theoretical transfers -- 3.4.1. Deleuze and architecture -- 3.4.2. The Fold across the Atlantic -- 3.4.3. An operational fold -- 3.4.4. Deterritorializing the Fold: at what cost? -- 3.5. Strategies: productive effects of the Deleuzian Fold on architecture -- 3.5.1. Objective and modulation -- 3.5.2. The blob, a theoretical and geometrical curiosity -- 3.5.3. Towards a surface architecture? -- 3.5.4. Morphogenesis and accidents -- 3.6. Conclusion: towards a technological determinism? -- 3.7. References -- Chapter 4. Hijacking the Tool: Towards a Transformation of the Architectural Representation -- 4.1. The detour -- 4.1.1. From tool to instrument -- 4.1.2. The question of representation in the digital age -- 4.2. Hijacking the software -- 4.3. Hijacking the machine -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 4.5. References -- Chapter 5. The Designer in the Informational Shift -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Leaving the notation regime: introducing emerging practices.
5.2.1. Data in the computational turn -- 5.2.2. The information regime in practice with BIM -- 5.2.3. Computational design -- 5.2.4. Towards a definition of "data-driven design" -- 5.3. Evolution of possibilities and design postures in the informational shift -- 5.3.1. Possibility space in relation to the data, some examples -- 5.3.2. "Evidence-based" and "performance-based" postures -- 5.3.3. Issues of integrated multi-objective performance -- 5.4. Risk and data requirements -- 5.4.1. Biases and limitations of the datasets -- 5.4.2. The contributions and constraints of BIM to produce and maintain data collaboratively -- 5.5. Data management opportunities for new approaches to projects -- 5.5.1. BIM and the rise of data-supported collaboration -- 5.5.2. The risks of data silos and the challenges of interoperability -- 5.6. Conclusion -- 5.7. References -- List of Authors -- Index -- EULA.
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Architectural Design Instruments : Conditions of Appearance, Modes of Appropriation and Reconfigurations of Practices
