Digital Processes (Detail Practice)

These days. a computer is as much a part of every household's standard equipment as a refrigerator, and yet the explosion of computer technology in the last several decades has transformed the daily life of every member of society far more than even utopians would ever have allowed themselves to dream. No wonder, then, that from design to production, architecture too is becoming more and more subject to digital influences. The range of those influences stretches from the classical computer programs used in design and presentation to media-supported design processes all the way to computerized production techniques, to say nothing of industrialized bricklayer ""robots."" From measurement to planning and production, architecture is the product of a closely coordinated digital process chain. What influence do digital design digital design and production methods have on contemporary architecture? How are these methods changing architecture and the way it ist created? Where does the potential of digital media for architecture lie? What are the areas in which every individual firm can begin to use them? What are the advantages of working electronically? How and at what cost can these methods be integrated into the day-to-day work of the professional architect? This publication offers answers to these and many other questions on all aspects of the digital design and construction process. Ein Computer gehört heutzutage fast so selbstverständlich zum Haushalt wie ein Kühlschrank, doch hat die Computertechnologie mit ihrer rasanten Entwicklung das tägliche Leben jedes Einzelnen in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten weit mehr verändert, als es sich selbst Utopisten jemals hätten träumen lassen. So ist es wenig verwunderlich, dass auch die Architektur - angefangen vom Entwurf bis hin zur Fertigung - mehr und mehr digitalen Einflüssen unterliegt. Die Bandbreite reicht dabei von den klassischen Computerprogrammen bei Entwurf und Präsentation über medienunterstützte Entwurfsprozes