MAGAZINE ARQ 63 | august 2006
Mechanics/electronics
From
its beginning, architectural discipline has needed tools to give form
to thoughts. The imagination or the creation of images is the instrument
that allows the architect to establish communication between project
and building form.
This issue will examine the two effectives paradigms: the mechanic and
the electronic, that consciously or not guides our formal options supported
in the computational tool.
The articles describe how new instruments modify the architectural practice,
in which way they determine the build form, which relation there is
between the new forms and the reality phenomena.
The works selected are results from tests and investigations, through
imagination and audacious construction, with materials and technical
possibilities within reach: an architecture that defies gravity despite
its weight and welcomes new manners of living and working.