High Definition / Architectural Design (PDF)

A pioneering title, High Definition explores the
onslaught of new and highly accurate digital metrology tools in
large- and small-scale 3-D scanning and 3-D modelling. Capable of
measuring space to an accuracy of less than 1 mm, these tools offer
unprecedented precision for the development and interrogation of
design before, during and post production. Over the last decade or
so, the array of designers' digital tools to propose and make
their ideas have evolved significantly, but the absence of
high-accuracy, zero-tolerance design production has often remained
the missing piece between design and fulfilment. Innovative
technologies are thus substantially recalibrating the way that
designers operate in the world between the drawn and the made,
having the power to transform the architect's role from that
of visualiser to one that is intensely involved with the
realisation of objects and buildings. High Definition will
examine the capabilities of advanced technologies in design
production through their impact on design theory, practice and
greater levels of collaboration between design and manufacturing.
It will permeate the entangled world between means and meaning and
unravel a new understanding between the representation and
production of architectural design.

* Contributors include: Philip Beesley, Centre for Advanced
Spatial Analysis, Gehry Technologies, Ruairi Glynn, Zaha Hadid
Architects, ScanLAB Projects, Territorial Agency, Skylar Tibbits,
Mike Webb.