Tectonism in Architecture, Design and Fashion: Innovations in Digital Fabrication as Stylistic Drivers. (2nd November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Schumacher, Patrik
• Other Names: Leach Neil guestEditor.; Farahi Behnaz guestEditor.
• Is Part Of: Architectural design. Volume 87:Number 6(2017)
• Page Start: 106
• Page End: 113
• Publication Date: 2017-11-02
• Subjects: Zaha Hadid Architects Computational Design Group (ZHA CODE) -- Bauhaus -- Brutalism -- RhinoVAULT -- Kangaroo for Grasshopper -- Principle Stress Lines analysis -- Karamba -- Millipede -- Frei Otto -- Achim Menges -- Marc Fornes -- Gramazio/ Kohler -- Philippe Block -- Mark Burry -- Parametricism 2.0 issue of 2 -- Serpentine Sackler Gallery -- London -- 1000 Museum residential tower -- Miami -- King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center -- Riyadh -- Nike -- Flyknit shoes -- Odlo's sportswear -- 'Meta‐Utopia – Between Process and Poetry' -- Zaha Hadid Design Gallery -- 'faktura' -- Patrick Schumacher -- Vasilija Zivanic -- Parametric Dinner Jacket -- Russian avant‐garde art and design -- Soviet Union -- Lei Zheng -- 'Meta‐Utopia' show -- Zaha Hadid Design -- Ai Build -- Puddle Chair -- Cirratus 3D‐printed concrete vase -- Neil Leach -- Designing for a Digital World -- Digital Tectonics -- Kenneth Frampton -- Studies in Tectonic Culture -- Charles S Peirce; 729
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.2245
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-8504

Abstract

Abstract : After 'foldism' and 'blobism' comes 'tectonism' – a new branch of the epochal style of parametricism that allows greater expressive and formal variety. It is made possible by an evolving range of digital tools for structural form‐finding and physics analysis, linked directly to fabrication. AsPatrik Schumacher, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, underlines, these do not remove the need for architects to collaborate with engineers and fabricators, but they do enable them to acquire more reliable intuitions about the logics of these other disciplines. This can only enhance their capacity to produce works that successfully combine communication and social functionality with technical integrity.