Digital Fabrications

Designer Stories for a Software-Based Planet

Galo Canizares, Ellie Abrons, Anthony Zukofsky

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English

Oro Editions
15 January 2000

Individual architects & architectural firms; Architectural structure & design; Architecture: professional practice

Digital Fabrications is a collection of essays and half-truestories about design software and hardware. Written from the perspective ofarchitectural design, each piece expands on emerging trends, devices, foibles,and phenomena engendered by an increased reliance on interactions with interfacesin the discipline.

The essays ask, how do we characterise our post-digital design labor? What arethe politics of design software? How is architecture adapting to a worldlargely dependent on platforms and scripts? What are the spatial mechanisms ofthe internet and VR? Using storytelling techniques, this book accepts that software is everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways it hastaken command of our cultural products.

From the perspective of architectural design, a field traditionallyassociated with sketching and its own myths of creativity, computers are anessential workplace tool. Projects rely on a wide assortment of softwarepackages and standalone applications, but rarely do architects reflect on thestructure of those programs or how they have infiltrated our disciplinaryconventions. PDFs and JPGs are as much a part of our vocabulary as plans,sections, and elevations. A drawing today might refer to a rendering, a CADdocument, a proprietary BIM file, or anything that describes a projectvisually.

While one way of examining this disciplinary shift might be tore-imagine what digital drawing can be, this collection of essays puts forthanother way: to look at the behaviours, phenomena, collective trends, andoddities emerging as a result of global software proliferation. In other words,this book accepts that software is everywhere, and narrows in on a few ways ithas taken command of our cultural products.

By: Galo Canizares
Designed by: Anthony Zukofsky
Foreword by: Ellie Abrons
Imprint: Oro Editions
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781943532513
ISBN 10: 1943532516
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 15 January 2000
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Galo Canizares is a designer, writer, and educator at the Ohio State University's Knowlton School of Architecture. His work blends absurdity, genre fiction, world-making, simulation, and parafiction to address issues in technology and the built environment. Galo Canizares is the recipient of the 2016-17 Howard E. LeFevre '29 Emerging Practitioner Fellowship, and in 2018 was awarded the 2018-19 Christos Yessios Visiting Professorship at the Ohio State University. His collaborative architectural practice, office ca, won the 2018 Ragdale Ring competition. Foreword by Ellie Abrons. Book Design by Anthony Zukofsky.