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.