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Informationen zum Autor Phil Ayres is Assistant Professor at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture (RASA), Copenhagen, Denmark. Zusammenfassung Drawing upon both historical and contemporary perspectives, this book examines the relationship between representation and the represented through the notion of Persistent Modelling. Featuring contributions from some of the world’s most advanced thinkers on this subject, this book makes essential reading for anyone considering new ways of thinking about architecture. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Persistent Modelling – Reconsidering Relations Part 1: Modelling Material 1. The Historical Context of Contemporary Architectural Representation 2. The Persistence of Faith in the Intangible Model 3. Intention and the User 4. A Communications Primer Revised 5. A Suggested Model of A-Functional Architecture 6. Modelling Modelling – Trajectories in Developing Instrumental Design Processes 7. Design Issues of Time-based Phenomena and the Notion of a Persistent Model: A Parametric Exploration of Acoustic Performance 8. Defining Adequate Models for Adaptive Architecture 9. The Death of Determinism Part 2: Material Modelling 10. The Fall 11. Persisting with Material: Engaging Material Behaviour Within the Digital Environment 12. The Active Model: A Calibration of Material Intent 13. Beneficial Change: The Case for Robotics in Architecture 14. The Building and its Double: Entropic Modeling in the Hylozoic Soil Series 15. Persistent Approaches to Designing Functionally Graded Materials
