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Over the past decade, digital tools have radically transformed the design, practice and construction of architecture. But behind the superslick, photorealist renderings of projects that are never built is an entire body of design research that informs the latest innovations in design and construction. Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation, edited by a pioneer of the digital revolution, examines the hottest areas of architectural design. The book takes its cue from the practice of masscustomization, one of the most important design and retail trends of recent years, to consider how variations on the same design idea can be applied to a broad spectrum of architectural, engineering and construction solutions.

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Spuybroek, head of the Dutch architecture firm NOX and a leading proponent of a highly systematized form of digital design, presents a condensed version of a recent design symposium he organized at Georgia Tech, where he teaches at the College of Architecture. Six transcribed lectures delivered in the dense and somewhat impenetrable prose of academic design theory; ten generously illustrated student-produced case studies; and a section presenting design analyses of, e.g., English arts and crafts wallpaper and French poodles together advocate the adoption of design systems and processes based on handcrafted and natural forms manipulated into infinitely variable, customizable, and complex iterations by advanced software. Verdict For architecture students, professionals, and experimental designers, who will find the underlying theory interesting if rather reductive and not altogether convincing. Nevertheless, these readers will be mesmerized by the unworldly, undulating, futuristic forms of buildings and projects existing now on printed page and computer monitor, and perhaps someday on solid ground.-David Soltesz, Cuyahoga Cty. P.L., Parma, OH (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Lars Spuybroek is principal of the experimental architecture studio NOX, based in Rotterdam, and holds theThomasW.Ventulett III Distinguished Chair in Architectural Design at GeorgiaTech in Atlanta.