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The first definitive book on the diagram in architecture - an umbrella work that brings together key images and essential reading.

The current transition from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computational Design in architecture represents a profound shift in design thinking and methods. Representation is being replaced by simulation, and the crafting of objects is moving towards the generation of integrated systems through designer-authored computational processes.

Heterogeneous space, with its emphasis on differentiation, is more relevant to the contemporary condition, which encourages the mixing of space, than a much more static conception of Modernist space. This book provides a highly pertinent and contemporary understanding of space for a new generation of students and architects.

The reader reprints extracts of key historical texts - those of Daniel Bell on the post-industrial society and Jean-Francois Lyotard on the post-modern condition. The new cultural logic of contested pluralism is analysed in seminal papers by Andreas Hyssen and Jim Collins.

A reader on fabrication in architecture for practitioners and producers alike. It provides a treatment on the subject of fabrication in architecture with its emphasis on contemporary technology, cultural history and theory.

The digital turn in architecture has gone through several stages and phases, and Architectural Design ( AD) has captured them all.

Urban Design Ecologies Reader gives architects and urban planners critical tools to understand urban design today. Featuring essays by leaders in the field, the book combines an historical perspective with forward-looking material on the global challenges of rapid urbanization and climate change.