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Author:   Patrik Schumacher
Publisher:   Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd
Imprint:   Images Publishing Group Pty Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 17.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.728kg
ISBN:  

9781864708967

ISBN 10:   1864708964
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   01 December 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Preface | 6 Introduction | 8 Architecture’s Task: The Designed Environment as Societal Ordering System | 12 1. First Premise: Parametricism | 15 1.1 The Indispensible Concept of Style | 16 1.2 Parametricism Against Pluralism | 20 1.3 Parametricism and Progress | 23 1.4 Conceptual and Operational Definition of Parametricism | 25 1.5 Style War: Parametricism Versus Minimalism | 31 2. Second Premise: Computational Engineering | 35 2.1 Collaboration and Distinction Between Architecture and Engineering | 36 2.2 Structural Fluidity: From Typology to Topology in Structural Engineering | 39 3. From Engineering Inspiration to Architectural Style: Tectonism | 48 3.1 Making Engineering Logics Speak | 51 3.2 Accentuation and Suppression | 55 3.3 Tectonic Articulation | 60 4. Tectonism as Style: Expressive Utilization of Engineering Logics | 66 4.1 Historical Precedents | 69 4.2 Structural System Optimizations as Drivers of Tectonic Articulation | 73 Candela Revisited | 85 Beijing Daxing International Airport | 90 One Thousand Museum | 94 Morpheus Hotel & Resort at City of Dreams | 98 Inkstone House, Cultural Centre | 102 4.3 Environmental Engineering Logics as Drivers of Tectonic Articulation | 103 King Abdullah Petroleum Studies & Research Centre (KAPSARC) | 104 Central Bank of Iraq | 110 4.4 Fabrication Methods as Drivers of Tectonic Articulation | 114 Arum | 115 Vaulted Willow | 117 Zephyr | 119 Science Museum Benches | 119 Thallus | 121 ACADIA 3D Printed Chair | 122 Nagami Chairs: Rise, Bow | 123 Striatus Bridge | 124 Parametric Dinner Jacket | 129 4.5 From Semiological Form-to-Function Correlations to a Systematic Visual-Spatial Language | 130 4.6 The Progression of Styles in Terms of Order and Freedom | 149 References | 156 Image Credits | 161 Project Credits | 162 Index | 172

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"""Patrik Schumacher has taught in the AA's [Architectural Association School of Architecture] Architecture and Urbanism (DRL) programme since its inception in 1996…we are delighted to welcome our colleague Patrik to talk about his new book in the AA Lecture Hall."" - AA Bookshop"

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"Patrik Schumacher is principal of Zaha Hadid Architects and is leading the firm since Zaha Hadid’s passing in March 2016. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988 and was seminal in developing Zaha Hadid Architects to become a 500 strong global architecture and design brand. Patrik Schumacher is a winner of the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture and an academician of the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association in London where he continues to teach. Patrik Schumacher holds a PhD in Cultural Science and in 2010–2012 he published his two-volume theoretical treatise ""The Autopoiesis of Architecture."" Patrik Schumacher is widely recognised as a thought leader within the fields of architecture, urbanism and design, and has contributed over 100 articles to architectural journals and anthologies."

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