FOREWORD Mario Carpo 8
CHAPTER 1 Information Modelling Today 14
CHAPTER 2 The Master Builder and Information Modelling 28
SHoP Architects, Control and Construction 44
CHAPTER 3 The C(reative)onstruction Process, Then and Now 58
MORPHOSIS Design Intent and Digital Iteration 70
CHAPTER 4 New Methods: New Tools 88
POPULOUS Curvilinear Workflows 102
CHAPTER 5 The Digital States and Information Modelling 122
GRO ARCHITECTS Dense Agendas 132
CHAPTER 6 Strategies for Component Generation 146
REISER + UMEMOTO Architecture by (Semi) Remote Control 160
CHAPTER 7 Assemblies and their Simulation 178
GENSLER Simulation Takes Control 196
CHAPTER 8 Conclusions: Authorship and Lines of Development 214
UNStudio Knowledge Architecture for a Life (Cycle) 224
Select Bibliography 242
Index 244