| Description |
136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits, plans ; 28 cm |
| Series |
Profile ; no. 221 |
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Architectural design profile ; 221
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| Summary |
"The pressure to innovate has become pervasive. Both inside and outside the architectural profession we are increasingly pressed by the quest for the new; by an innovation imperative. But what does 'innovation' really mean for architecture? Predominantly framed in terms of technological invention, economics and consumption, the notion of innovation is often problematically applied to the arts. Design and creativity are widely considered as drivers within innovation economies, but how can architects understand and approach the imperative to innovate meaningfully, ethically and on their own terms? Suggesting a process that is fundamentally emergent, collective and environmentally situated, The Innovation Imperative explores architectural innovation in terms of the production of vitality. Emphasising attention to ways of doing as key to innovation, this title of AD brings together historical perspectives with a range of leading provocative, emerging approaches to architectural practice that together offer fresh insight into the often vague and ubiquitous atmospheres of innovation-speak. Ultimately, this issue asks how an emphasis on vitality might offer a more nuanced understanding of the aesthetic value and ethical know-how intertwined within innovative architectural endeavour". -- p. [4] of cover |
| Notes |
At head of title: AD: Architectural design |
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Featured architects include: Bijoy Jain (Studio Mumbai), Pezo von Ellrichshausen Arquitectos, WOHA and Kongjian Yu (Turenscape) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Editorial / Helen Castle -- About The Guest-Editors: Pia Ednie-Brown, Mark Burry, Andrew Burrow -- The Innovative Imperative: Architectures of Vitality / Pia Ednie-Brown, Mark Burry, Andrew Burrow -- The Ethics of the Imperative / Pia Ednie-Brown -- Design and Society: Innovation Through Appropriation and Adaptation / Mark Burry -- Innovation at the Storefront: The Practice of Eva Franch i Gilabert / Pia Ednie-Brown -- Architecture as Initiative (A Manifesto) / Veronika Valk -- On a Fine Line: Greg Lynn and the Voice of Innovation / Pia Ednie-Brown -- Becoming Architectural: Affirmative Critique, Creative Incompletion / Brian Massumi -- The Ebb and Flow of Digital Innovation: From Form Making to Form Finding - and Beyond / Mario Carpo -- Strange Vitality: The Transversal Architecture of MOS and New Territories/R&Sie(n) / Pia Ednie-Brown -- The Vitality of Matter and the Instrumentalisation of Life / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr -- Initiating Change: Architecturing the Body-Environment with Arakawa and Gins / Jondi Keane -- bioMASON and the Speculative Engagements of Biotechnical Architecture / Pia Ednie-Brown -- The Evolutionary Dynamics of Sentience in Cities / Michael Weinstock -- Final Draft: Designing Architecture's Endgame / Gretchen Wilkins and Andrew Burrow -- Differentiation in Vital Practice: An Analysis Using RMIT University of Technology and Design Interfaces With Architects / Leon van Schaik -- The Mothers of Invention / Tom Daniell -- Designing Tomorrow's Innovation / Terry Cutler -- COUNTERPOINT: Architecture, Innovation and Tradition / Antoine Picon |
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Also available online |
| Subject |
Architectural design -- 21st century.
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| Author |
Brown, Pia Ednie.
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Burry, Mark.
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Burrow, Andrew
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| ISBN |
9781119978657 (paperback) |
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1119978653 (paperback) |
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