Impact, Paperback by Rahim, Ali (EDT); Jamelle, Hina (EDT), ISBN 1119651581, ISBN-13 9781119651581, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US

<p>This issue of <i>AD</i> explores the working discipline of architecture as it impacts the material culture within which it is always embedded. An architecture of impact uses advanced techniques in such a way that its material assembly supersedes&nbsp;its use of the .</p> <p>Until now, this type of architecture has been formally and materially bound by restrictive conventional methodologies, which the project has moved from the scale of installations to three-dimensional building-sized fabrications. Unless architects turn to a new culture of&nbsp;making, architecture shaped by even innovative technology will become irrelevant. Architectural projects that are more subversive in how they are created and that lose their signature have greater potential to be at the forefront of the discipline&rsquo;s new materialisations. This issue illustrates these ideas and their architectural impact.</p> <p>Contributors: Kutan Ayata, Ben van Berkel, Hernan Diaz Alonso, David Goldblatt, Thomas Heatherwick, Ferda Kolatan, Ascan Mergenthaler, Antoine Picon, Casey Rehm, Patrik Schumacher, and Philip F Yuan.</p> <p>Featured architects: Archi-Union, Contemporary Architecture Practice, HDA-X, Heatherwick Studio, Herzog &amp; de Meuron, Ishida Rehm Studio, Pininfarina, SHoP Architects, SU-11, UNStudio, and Young &amp; Ayata, and Zaha Hadid Architects.</p>