01582nam a2200265Ia 4500 TVU_32502 210423s9999 xx 000 0 und d 111887837X 9781118878378 eng 720.285 M425 Material synthesis fusing the physical and the computational guest-edited by Achim Menges London, England John Wiley and Sons, Inc. 2015 136 p. ill. 29 cm A new understanding of the material in architecture is fast emerging. Designers are no longer conceiving of the digital realm as separate from the physical world. Instead computation is being regarded as the key interface for material exploration and vice versa. This represents a significant perceptual shift in which the materiality of architecture is no longer seen to be a fixed property and passive receptor of form, but is transformed into an active generator of design and an adaptive agent of architectural performance. In stark contrast to previous linear and mechanistic modes of fabrication and construction, materialisation is now beginning to coexist with design as explorative robotic processes. This represents a radical departure from both the trite modernist emphasis on 'truth to materials' and the dismissal of materials by the previous generation of digital architects Architectural design guest-edited by Achim Menges Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh