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BEYOND THE GRID - ARCHITECTURE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: INNOVATIVE SOLUTIONS FOR COMPLEX SYSTEMS
Ludger Hovestadt
Birkhauser, 2009
Hardcover
272 pages
100 colour & 20 b+w illustrations
ISBN: 9783034600965
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Professor Ludger Hovestadt's Institute for Computer-Aided Architectural Design at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) is widely regarded as one of the world's most important institutes currently working at the interface between architecture and information technology.
As a universal tool, the computer encourages one to think in terms of information structures and systems that span individual fields. This "rethinking" of the nature of architecture is leading to a paradigm shift at the methodological level of design, planning, construction, and economy. After a decade of experimentation, it has now become possible to see information technology for architecture as the basis for a new and energy-saving practical approach to building.
This publication presents the work of the chair for CAAD using numerous examples from the Monte Rosa Alpine hut of Andrea Deplazes to the residential development of KCAP.
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