02167nam a2200313 a 4500 ASIN0470029684 OSt 20180116192408.0 120329s2007 xxu | 00| 0 eng d 0470029684 (paperback) $45.00 9780470029688 (paperback) 0 729 ELE 2007 Elegance / Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle. 1st ed. London : Wiley ; 2007. 128 p. : 28 cm. Architectural design ; v. 77, no. 1 667 Profile ; no. 185 Elegance represents an important watershed in architectural design. Since the onset of computer-driven technologies, innovative designers have, almost exclusively, been preoccupied with the pursuit of digital techniques. This issue of AD extrapolates current design tendencies and brings them together to present a new type of architecture, one that is seamlessly trying processes, space, structure and material together with beauty. ‘Elegance’ here is cast with a new contemporary meaning as it is applied to work that is effortlessly complex. It is analogous to an elegant algorithm that uses a small amount of initiative code to great effect. In a structure elegance may be expressed by a complex surface that retains its continuity and integrity even when punctured. In many ways, Elegance marks a coming of age for, ‘digital architecture’, as architects become more adept at producing complexity and integrating digital design technologies, production and assembly systems producing elegant solutions. It is the potent finesse that is often associated with the work of Zaha Hadid Architects and other featured architects, such as Mark Goulthorpe of Decoi and Hani Rashid of Asymptote. Architectural design 668 Architecture Aesthetics 669 Rahim, Ali. 670 Jamelle, Hina. 671 Architectural design. 672 Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0470029684/chopaconline-20 ddc BK 353453 353453 0 0 ddc 0 0 SADA SADA 2012-03-28 4 5 729 ELE 2007 SADA0001645 2015-04-17 2015-03-31 3506.00 2012-04-02 BK