Interdisciplinary Design
New Lessons from Architecture and Engineering
- 192 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About This Book
Architects and engineers both claim to be designers, though how they define design and the approaches they use to realize it, vary widely. However their interaction has also created some of the world's most memorable, enduring and impressive buildings. The unprecedented impact of digital technologies illuminates the complexity and non-linearity of the process that these designers go through while massively expanding both the ability to visualize and represent forms, and to analyze their structural behavior. It has obviously changed both architecture and engineering, and so also the potential for interaction between them. Interdisciplinary Design began as a course at Harvard GSD attended by graduate students in architecture and also by MIT graduate students in structural engineering and computation. In this course students and instructors examined a series of built projects in order to develop new viewpoints and communication across disciplinary boundaries in teaching, practice and construction.
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Table of contents
- Foreword: Effective Affinities
- Redesigning Attitudes
- Learning from Design
- Structure as Architectural Intervention
- Behind the Curtains: Backstage
- Surfing the Wave
- Toward a New Sobriety: Rebel Engineering with a Cause
- Highcross Leicester
- Ravensbourne College
- GSD Lite
- Harvard M.O.D.E.
- Phaeno Science Center
- Design the Cloud: Cross-disciplinary Approach to Design
- Changing Forms, Changing Processes
- Enhancing Prefabrication
- Design for Disassembly: Closing the Materials Loop without Sacrificing Form
- Design with Climate: The Role of Digital Tools in Computational Analysis of Site-Specific Architecture
- Masdar Institute of Science and Technology
- The Role of the Client in the Design of Sustainable Developments
- Open House
- Refabrication
- Heelis - National Trust Headquarters
- On Heelis: The Role Played by Environmental Engineers
- Algorithms in Design: Uses, Limitations, and Development
- Integrated Design: A Computational Approach to the Structural and Architectural Design of Diagrid Structures
- Form Finding: The Engineer's Approach
- Henderson Waves Bridge
- Henderson Waves: A Collaboration
- Double Shell
- Jewel Box
- UK Pavilion, Shanghai Expo 2010
- In collaboration...
- Death of The Star Architect
- How the Architect Found the Engineer
- A Necessary Resistance within Architect?Engineer Collaboration
- Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Enabling Architects to Regain Leadership in the Building Industry
- Adelaide Wharf
- Collaboration as a Working Process
- Center for Advanced Architecture
- Bridge Gallery
- Westfield Student Village
- Climate Comfort Collaboration
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Image credits