Description
Book SynopsisSuggesting a process that is fundamentally emergent, collective and environmentally situated, this book explores architectural innovation in terms of the production of vitality.
Table of ContentsEditorIal 5
Helen Castle
About the Guest Editors 6
Pia Ednie-Brown, Mark Burry and Andrew Burrow
Introduction 8
The Innovation Imperative: Architectures of Vitality
Pia Ednie-Brown, Mark Burry and Andrew Burrow
The Ethics of the Imperative 18
Pia Ednie-Brown
Design and Society: Innovation Through Appropriation and Adaptation 24
Mark Burry
Innovation at the Storefront: The Practice of Eva Franch i Gilabert 34
Pia Ednie-Brown
Architecture as Initiative (A Manifesto) 38
Veronika Valk
On a Fine Line: Greg Lynn and the Voice of Innovation 44
Pia Ednie-Brown
Becoming Architectural: Affirmative Critique, Creative Incompletion 50
Brian Massumi
The Ebb and Flow of Digital Innovation: From Form Making to Form Finding – and Beyond 56
Mario Carpo
Strange Vitality: The Transversal Architectures of MOS and New Territories/R&Sie(n) 62
Pia Ednie-Brown
The Vitality of Matter and the Instrumentalisation of Life 70
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
Initiating Change: Architecting the Body-Environment with Arakawa and Gins 76
Jondi Keane
bioMASON and the Speculative Engagements of Biotechnical Architecture 84
Pia Ednie-Brown
The Evolutionary Dynamics of Sentience in Cities 92
Michael Weinstock
Final Draft: Designing Architecture’s Endgame 98
Gretchen Wilkins and Andrew Burrow
Differentiation in Vital Practice: An Analysis Using RMIT University of Technology and Design Interfaces With Architects 106
Leon van Schaik
The Mothers of Invention 114
Tom Daniell
Designing Tomorrow’s Innovation 124
Terry Cutler
Counterpoint 128
Architecture, Innovation and Tradition
Antoine Picon
Contributors 134
