{"product_id":"building-futures-technology-ecology-and-architectural-practice-9781119829218","title":"Building Futures: Technology, Ecology, and Architectural Practice","description":"BUILDING FUTURES \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn approach to Information Modeling engaging concepts of equality, sustainability, and labor as they relate to environment and architectural practice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding Futures: Technology, Ecology, and Architectural Practice\u003c\/i\u003e explores how architects, and the buildings and environments we create, can engage future realities, both abstract and readily understood. These range from climate change and public health to advanced ideas about manufacture and construction. The text demonstrates multiple and hybrid paths in which building information modeling (BIM) and outgrowth technological processes including environmental simulation and human-robot interaction can be utilized in today's contemporary context, expanding the architect's agency by focusing on a more conceptual, and ecological, basis for our work. Moving beyond a basic understanding of the role of computation in architecture and design, the work shows how to think critically and speculatively about technology's deeper and more lasting impacts on both architecture and society. Topics covered in \u003ci\u003eBuilding Futures\u003c\/i\u003e include: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Technology: information modeling and the relationship between computational and real objects, new approaches to coding in architectural design, and direct-to-manufacture workflows\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Environment: understanding part-to-whole relationships at a variety of scales and the interconnectedness of things, post-subjective architectural approaches to ecology, and new ideas about sustainability \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e Practice: revisiting architecture by remote control in the time of new global challenges, and novel ideas about creativity, authorship, and professionalism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eDesign professionals and practice leaders grappling with the relationship of technology to design pedagogy will use \u003ci\u003eBuilding Futures\u003c\/i\u003e to better theorize and execute their architectural vision. Students in upper-level courses studying technique and theory will also find value in the work, which prepares incoming professionals for the major changes that the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry may undergo in the coming years and decades. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book prompts us to consider simulating events where architecture and architects could mitigate, redirect or develop contingencies, in relation to the environment, flows of material and capital, and other \"things\" that operate from the immediate, through to almost geological timescales.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the Foreword by Robert Stuart-Smith, Director of the Autonomous Manufacturing Lab, University of Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Garber, AIA, \u003c\/b\u003e is a founding partner at GRO Architects, whose recent projects include buildings, plans, and communities in a number of US cities. Richard teaches graduate Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, and has written numerous books and essays including \u003ci\u003eBIM Design: Realizing the Creative Potential of Building Information Modelling\u003c\/i\u003e (John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons, 2014), and was guest editor of AD \u003ci\u003eClosing the Gap: Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley, 2009).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50486687432978,"sku":"9781119829218","price":51.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_3ad591e7-0442-4d51-8ad5-52a3974cb041.jpg?v=1730433250","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/building-futures-technology-ecology-and-architectural-practice-9781119829218","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}