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Manufacturing the Bespoke : Making and Prototyping Architecture
Never have roles, methods and capabilities within disciplines of building production been in such unprecedented flux. "Manufacturing the Bespoke" brings clarity to this subject by featuring new essays on innovative built and unrealised sructures from pioneering architects, engineers, academics and designers from around the world. This original and informative reader focuses on the translation of architectural ideas from the conceptual stage to their final physical realisation. Contributing contemporary architects include: Charles Walker at Zaha Hadid Architects; Mark Burry on the completion of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona; and Philip Beesley. The book encompasses a number of extended articles by internationally renowned critics, theorists, educators and designers, such as Matthias Kohler, Neri Oxman, Peer Salter and Michael Stacey.
This Reader provides a definitive reference for every ambitious student, desisgner, critic, historian or engineer looking to fathom the multitude of strands that influence manufacturing, man's most prolific occupation in the 21st century. The book covers an extensive territory of intellectual pursuit through the relentless acts of design, manufacture and construction, and aims to contextualise and define new meanings for architectural production in the post digital age. Leading lights, exploring alternative meanings for practice, research, theory and innovation, are placed side by side in a volume of vibrant and visual discourse.
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