Prototyping For Architects
Authors: Mark Burry and Jane Burry
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, 2016
Prototyping is an essential part of designers’ repertoires, allowing them to test their projects from structural, aesthetic, and technical standpoints. Prototyping for Architects examines how architects are combining new digital design and fabrication technologies with traditional hands-on building techniques to gain more insight into the strengths and weaknesses of their designs.
Beginning with an introduction charting the rise of prototyping in design history, this cutting-edge volume for students and professionals presents an extensive range of prototyping techniques, followed by a selection of 30 projects by leading contemporary international architects.
Jane and Mark Burry explain how prototyping at a miniature scale helps communicate complex spatial ideas; how prototyping empowers the architect-designer to test and prove a building’s feasibility; and how additive (3D printing) or subtractive (robotic milling) prototyping can lead to exciting new design possibilities. A reference section, which includes a glossary of technical terms, offers further information and clarification.
Les Naus de la Sagrada Família: els secrets arquitectònics d’una obra irrepetible
Authors: Mark Burry, Jordi Coll, Ramon Espel, Jordi Faulí and Josep Gómez
Publisher: Editorial Mediterrània, 2014
Currently published in Catalan, Spanish and English languages to follow.
SCRIPTING CULTURES
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pty Ltd, 2011
With scripting, computer programming becomes integral to the digital design process. It provides unique opportunities for innovation, enabling the designer to customise the software around their own predilections and modes of working. It liberates the designer by automating many routine aspects and repetitive activities of the design process, freeing-up the designer to spend more time on design thinking. Software that is modified through scripting offers a range of speculations that are not possible using the software only as the manufacturers intended it to be used. There are also significant economic benefits to automating routines and coupling them with emerging digital fabrication technologies, as time is saved at the front-end and new file-to-factory protocols can be taken advantage of. Most significantly perhaps, scripting as a computing program overlay enables the tool user (designer) to become the new tool maker (software engineer). Though scripting is not new to design, it is only recently that it has started to be regarded as integral to the designer’s skill set rather than a technical speciality. Many designers are now aware of its potential, but remain hesitant. This book treats scripting not only as a technical challenge, requiring clear description, guidance and training, but also, and more crucially, answers the question as to why designers should script in the first place, and what the cultural and theoretical implications are.
THE NEW MATHEMATICS OF ARCHITECTURE
Authors: Jane burry & Mark Burry
Publisher: Thames and Hudson, 2010
Vital to the future of architectural dialect … an awesome turn-on’ – Architects’ Journal
‘Inside the subdued cover of this modestly sized book you will find analysis, description and beautiful photographs … if architecture is like frozen music then this is a big mash-up of Prog Rock and Stockhausen. And that cannot be a bad thing’ – RIAS Quarterly
In the era of digital design and manufacturing, architects can experiment with and apply mathematical concepts to built structures as never before.
This in-depth survey of forty-six international projects offers a thorough overview of the most exciting manifestations of these new processes through illustrations, lucid texts, hands-on experience and constructed projects. The result is a rich compendium of the thinking and building behind today’s most exciting architecture.
Minifie Nixon • Foster + Partners • John Pickering • Antoni Gaudí • Ingenhoven Architects • Gehry Partners • Kohn Pedersen Fox • Lab Architecture Studio • Ateliers • Jean Nouvel • Ocean North • Biothing • Arup Agu • PTW Architects • Heneghan Peng • Daniel Libeskind • Ashton Raggatt McDougall • Foreign Office Architects • Arata • Isozaki • Cox Architects • Toyo Ito • UN Studio • Decoi Architects • Paul Morgan Architects • Greg Lynn • McBride Charles Ryan • Hakes Associates • Cloud 9 Architecture • Karres en Brands • Nox Architects • Servo • Asymptote • Hyperbody Research Group • Carlo Ratti Associati
MEDIA TIC
Authors: Mark Burry, Daniel Giralt-Miracle, Jeremy Rifkin, Enric Ruiz Geli (Editor)
Publisher: Actar, 2011
The MediaTic building is designed to be a communications hub and meeting point for businesses and institutions in the world of information and communication technologies (ICTs), as well as for the media and audio-visual sectors. Now, in the Information era, architecture has to be a technological platform, in which bits, connectivity, new materials, and nanotechnology are important. Connections are more relevant than materials. Its complex façade, made of ETFE, represents digital construction, the construction of of information. It responds to the user s necessity: when too much direct sunlight, the ETFE skin protects the inside. When light is needed it opens itself and lets the daylight in. The result is an eco-energy-efficient building. This book unveils the most intriguing and exceptional facts of this building. A fine example of what is called performative architecture .
SAGRADA FAMILIA s. XXI GAUDI ARA / AHORA / NOW
Authors: Mark Burry, Jordi Coll Grifoll, Joseph Gómez Serrano
Publisher: Edicions UPC, 2008
GAUDI UNSEEN
Authors: Mark Burry, Jordi Bonet i Armengol, Jos Tomlow, Antoni Gaudi
Publisher: jovis, 2008
Around two million people annually visit Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí’s unfinished gesamkunstwerk, La Sagrada Família–a massive church in Barcelona, which was begun in 1883. Since many of Gaudí’s plans for the structure were destroyed during the Spanish Civil War, teams of architects have been continually tinkering with the elusive structure since his death in 1926. Because Gaudí seemingly didn’t use regular or repeating forms–relying instead on color, light and organic sculptural motifs–architects working on the completion of La Sagrada Família have faced a host of daunting design problems. In the 1980s, New Zealand architect Mark Burry began using computer-aided design to piece together the missing parts–but traditional architectural software doesn’t translate Gaudí’s off-beat forms, so Burry applied aeronautical design software to the problem. Though slated for completion by 2007, the building is still very much under construction–the completion date having been pushed back many times. As the structure is dedicated to the holy family, Gaudí would often joke, “The patron of this project is not in a hurry.” Gaudí: Unseen offers a behind-the-scenes look at this hundred-year-long architectural drama.
La Sagrada Família: de Gaudí al CAD
Authors: Mark Burry, Josep Gomez, Jordi Coll, Juan C Melero
Publisher: Ediciones Universitat Politècnica, 1996
The interest of this publication is to present the draft vessels of the Temple of the Sagrada Família currently drawing techniques and computer CAD designed and Antoni Gaudí on plaster models during the twelve years (1914-1926) he worked exclusively and intensely in that work. This book is justified by the explanation of the use of current technology to decipher the hidden relationships Gaudi geometry. Each figure of the book is a tribute to Gaudi authors, since the study of each element of this work shows that creativity does not ignore the rules never allow enrichment geometric space, which reaches its maximum expression in the Sagrada Família. Getting into the knowledge of this building is to find the laws governing their geometry and define its structure, a set of columns, walls and ceilings that highlight the complexity that can be achieved by linking simple geometric elements: planes, cylinders, paraboloids, hyperboloids to close the space of the temple and at the same time, provide the necessary sections to ensure stability and strength. This book opens the way to advance the knowledge of the laws governing the generation of the Sagrada Família and, by extension, the architecture of Gaudí.
THE EXPIATORY CHURCH OF THE SAGRADA FAMÍLIA
Author: Mark Burry
Publisher: Phaidon, 1993
The Expiatory Church of the Sagrada Familia is Gaudi’s undoubted masterpiece. It charts the styles the architect evolved during his career. At the crypt level a Gothic design is used, but as the building climbs towards the sky the structure passes through an Art Nouveau stage before becoming more surreal and fanciful, finishing in four intricately carved, open-work cone-shaped spires. For all its apparent fantasy, however, the Sagrada Familia is rooted in structural principles (based on the parabolic arch) and an elaborate personal symbolism. Unfinished upon the architect’s accidental death in 1926, the church is currently being completed following Gaudi’s plans.
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