Contemporary architecture and the digital design process

""Introduces the reader to new developments in the computer modeling of design form in contemporary architectural practice through a series of detailed case studies. The book illustrates how evolving design practices use and exploit the potential of new computing technologies in a wide range of areas and application. The book features several contemporary building projects, each of which introduces a range of CAD and computing issues based upon the work of creative architectural and engineering design practices. All the examples show what architects need to know and the skills they need to acquire to use advanced CAD technology"--Back cover."@en
"Contemporary Architecture and the Digital Design Process introduces the reader to new developments in the computer modelling of design form in contemporary architectural practice through a series of detailed case studies. The book illustrates how evolving design practices use and exploit the potential of new computing technologies in a wide range of areas and application. A central thesis of this book is that technology follows design demand, rather than design adjusting to available new technology. Designers are not merely passive recipients of prescribed comput."@en
"This book illustrates the scope and complexity of CAD in practice. It directly links the intentions of creative designers to specific CAD techniques. A series of case studies from key architectural practices extracts and analyses the key issues for CAD development."@en