The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992 - 2012 / AD Reader (PDF)

Now almost 20 years old, the digital turn in architecture has
already gone through several stages and phases. Architectural
Design (AD) has captured them all - from folding
to cyberspace, nonlinearity and hypersurfaces, from versioning to
scripting, emergence, information modelling and parametricism. It
has recorded and interpreted the spirit of the times with vivid
documentary precision, fostering and often anticipating crucial
architectural and theoretical developments. This anthology of
AD's most salient articles is chronologically and
thematically arranged to provide a complete historical timeline of
the recent rise to pre-eminence of computer-based design and
production. Mario Carpo provides an astute overview of the recent
history of digital design in his comprehensive introductory essay
and in his leaders to each original text. A much needed pedagogical
and research tool for students and scholars, this synopsis also
relates the present state of digitality in architecture to the
history and theory of its recent development and trends, and raises
issues of crucial importance for the contemporary practice of the
design professions.

* A comprehensive anthology on digital architecture edited by one
of its most eminent scholars in this field, Mario Carpo.

* Includes seminal texts by Bernard Cache, Peter Eisenman, John
Frazer, Charles Jencks, Greg Lynn, Achim Menges and Patrik
Schumacher.

* Features key works by FOA, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Ali Rahim,
Lars Spuybroek/NOX, Kas Oosterhuis and SHoP.