Thames & Hudson
December 30, 2004
In the avant-garde of digital architects, Rotterdam-based Lars Spuybroek and
his studio NOX are among the few who have completed built projects. Before the
advent of large-scale processing power, digital modeling, and computer-aided
manufacturing, NOX's structures would have been unbuildable. Today, the work is
taken seriously on an international scale as the possibilities for construction
and spatial innovation attain new levels of feasibility.
Written and compiled largely by the architect, the book reveals the
inspirations, insights, and techniques that allow him to conceive—and build—such
experimental work. There is a complete documentation of NOX's oeuvre, including
built and unbuilt work—some twenty-three projects in total; essays by leading
critics Manual De Landa, Detlef Mertins, Andrew Benjamin, Brian Massumi, and
Arjen Mulder ; and explanatory texts by Spuybroek that link the projects
together.
Many of the illustrations in the book have been specially created, making
accessible for the first time the complex strategies employed by Spuybroek. This
in turn will make the publication an invaluable resource for both students and
practicing designers.
392 p., 26 x 21 cm
EAN 9780500285190
