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DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY LecturesSpartaco Paris

ISBN 9788895623986

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6 ForEword

8 LECTUrE 1 Contemporary buildings:

eco-machines vs ‘natural objects’

18 LECTUrE 2 Technological innovation and architectural quality:

the new limits of the relationship between form and technology

30 LECTUrE 3 Contemporary architecture and tectonics

42 LECTUrE 4 Detail in the architectural envelope and its fragmentation in

contemporary design process

52 LECTUrE 5 Sustainability, technology and quality of architecture. The

Mediterranean

66 LECTUrE 6 The changing relationship between technology and architecture

74 LECTUrE 7 Technological innovation and mass customization:

the architectural envelope

84 LECTUrE 8 Disegno Industriale vs Industrial Design. The Italian story

96 LECTUrE 9 Table as a elementary structure. Archetype of architecture

106 Appendix

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1. F. K. Schinkel, Charlottenhof bei Potsdam, Romische Bader.2. L.Mies Van der Rohe, Neue National Galerie, Berlin,1968.

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ForEword Spartaco Paris

The book is edited through the critical processing of a cycle of communications carried out by the authors at Italian and foreign universities during the years 2006-2013.It has been decided to use the term “lectures” in the title, because it seemed to be the most appropriate way to define the feature of the contributions: because of contents, register and places, a lecture usually represents something more than a ordinary class lesson at university and in some cases a sort of abstract for a conference. The lectures are linked by the issue around the role of technology in contemporary architectural design.Compared to the acceleration of production in different areas, the technology in architecture has been predominantly characterized by a relative stability and a slow acceleration of its evolution. Even the process of industrialization in the building construction industry are still not particularly sophisticated and dynamic. The structural materials - with a few exceptions like in timber building - are the same as the experimental hundred years ago. Over the past twenty years, two parallel phenomena have triggered a rapid acceleration and a significant leap forward in architectural technology: the systematic use of CAD / CAM systems for design and production design and the collective awareness on energy / environmental emergency.The first was the principal cause of a greater freedom in controlling and managing complex morphologies, as in design as well in production. The second has instead imposed a deep rethinking of the role of technology in architecture, introducing the parameters of the environment and energy as fundamental paradigms to empower the meaning of technology as fundamental tool in the design process.The book surveys this phenomenon, considering technology not only as a tool, but also as instrument able to define the changing of form and language in design as well as in architecture.