Today, after the digital revolution of the 2000s, which radically redefined architectural production conditions, a new generation of artists, architects and designers is developing a praxis at the crossroads of computer science, engineering, and biology.
By permitting the exploration of evolitive principles peculiar to the living world, digital simulation tools are opening up an unprecedented area of investigation. Henceforth architecture is involved in 'matter', which is turning out to be both effective and capable of doing away with the distinction between nature and artifice, ushering in a new order of hybridization.
How are we to think about this new ecology of design, a condition that is as architectural as it is political and cultural, within which nature and architecture merge? Structured in four parts (Rustic, Geometric, Organic and Ecophysics), this is the question that the 2013 this publication intend to answer with the authors and the projects of forty international architects, artists and designers currently at the forefront of scientific innovation, a series of hitherto unpublished essays, backed up by outstanding illustrative material, lends perspective to the historical, aesthetic, and philosophical challenges of this 'naturalized architecture' on every scale.
With texts from: Marie-Ange Brayer, Frédéric Migayrou, Franck Varenne, Giuseppe Longo et Nabil Zakhama, Rivka Oxman, Annick Lesne, Graham Harman, Lambros Malafouris.
Today, after the digital revolution of the 2000s, which radically redefined architectural production conditions, a new generation of artists, architects and designers is developing a praxis at the crossroads of computer science, engineering, and biology.
By permitting the exploration of evolitive principles peculiar to the living world, digital simulation tools are opening up an unprecedented area of investigation. Henceforth architecture is involved in 'matter', which is turning out to be both effective and capable of doing away with the distinction between nature and artifice, ushering in a new order of hybridization.
How are we to think about this new ecology of design, a condition that is as architectural as it is political and cultural, within which nature and architecture merge? Structured in four parts (Rustic, Geometric, Organic and Ecophysics), this is the question that the 2013 this publication intend to answer with the authors and the projects of forty international architects, artists and designers currently at the forefront of scientific innovation, a series of hitherto unpublished essays, backed up by outstanding illustrative material, lends perspective to the historical, aesthetic, and philosophical challenges of this 'naturalized architecture' on every scale.
With texts from: Marie-Ange Brayer, Frédéric Migayrou, Franck Varenne, Giuseppe Longo et Nabil Zakhama, Rivka Oxman, Annick Lesne, Graham Harman, Lambros Malafouris.
CONTENT:
Rustic
14. Marie-Ange Brayer. Nature and artifice. Affects and artifacts in naturalized architecture
38. Frédéric Migayrou. Naturalizing Architecture
60. Niccolo Casas
62. Cmmnwlth.
64. Federico Diaz
66. Eragatory
70. Perry Hall
74. Michael Hansmeyer
78. Casey Reas
82. SPAN
86. Iris van Herpen
90. Daniel Widrig
Geometric
96. Franck Varenne.The Nature of computational things - Models and simulations in Design and Architecture
106. Rivka Oxman. Naturalizing Design: In Pursuit of Tectonic Materiality
122. EZCT Architecture & Design Research
126. Faulders Studio
130. MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANYTM
134. Gage / Clemenceau Architects
136. Gramazio & Kohler / Raffaello D’Andrea
140. akihisa hirata architecture office
142. Jenny Sabin
146. Ruy Klein
150. SJET
154. Marius Watz
Organic
158. Giuseppe Longo and Nabil Zakhama.The Model as an Organizing Outlook upon the Real
188. Annick Lesne.Towards an Organic Architecture
198. [Ay]A Studio
202. B + U
204. BIOTHING
208. Kokkugia
212. Joris Laarman Lab
214. MaterialEcology
218. Matsys
222. Achim Menges
226. Minimaforms
230. Wendy Teo
Ecophysics
234. Graham Harman. Objects and Architecture
244. Lambros Malafouris. On thinking and form-making
254. ecoLogicStudio
256. junya.ishigami+associates
260. MAD Architects
264. marcosandmarjan
268. Plasma Studio
270. servo
272. soma
274. Supermanoeuvre
276. X_TU Architects
280. Xuberance
