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Design Through Making
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Most architects who build do not make buildings; they make information that makes buildings. Making buildings requires acquiring knowledge not only of the world of information exchange, but also of the world of making things. It is an expertise that goes beyond the architectural drawing and an expertise that many designers cannot claim to fully possess or practice.

Design through Making is not only directed at architects, but engineers, educators, fabricators, machine operators, and anyone with an interest in the manifestation of ideas. It seeks to challenge outmoded notions that building production is preceded by design, and making is merely the cooking of the raw, or the end game where no further design ideas are explored. Here, a hybrid mode is recognised where the investigation of ideas is fully engaged with the tactile, physical nature of architecture and building processes. It is an issue that celebrates the re-emergence of making, not merely as an immense resource for ideas, experimentation and customisation, but as a critical resource that will redefine architectural practices.

This title includes the work of Block Architecture, Mark Burry, Thomas Heatherwick Studios and Walter Pichler; there is also a special feature on Japanese traditions in architecture. Contributors include: Iain Borden, Sarah Chaplin, David Dunster, Jonathan Hill and Mark Prizeman.

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Bob Sheil is a lecturer, researcher and practising architect based in London, UK. He runs diploma unit 23 at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where he also teaches material-forming techniques and is Director of web information systems. He has been a guest lecturer at Edinburgh University Faculty of Architecture, University of Cambridge School of Architecture, Slade School of Art and Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. He is also a founding partner in sixteen*(makers), a workshop-based architectural practice.
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Editorial Helen Castle.

Design Through Making: An Introduction Bob Sheil.

Building the Drawing Jonathan Hill.

Drawing Instruments Nat Chard.

Homo Faber Mark Burry.

In My Craft and Sullen Art or Sketching the Future by Drawing on the past Michael Stacey.

Orgone Reef Philip Beesley.

Hooke Park As a New AA Initiative in Education Mark Prizeman.

Getting Specific Phil Ayres.

Adaptive Architectural Design Nick Callicott.

Making a Bang Bob Sheil + Ron Packman.

Makeshift: Some Reflections on Japanese Design Sensibility Sarah Chaplin.

Walter Pichler David Dunster.

Learning in Newbern: Rural Studio in Year Ten John Forney.

The Architecture Ensemble Steve Johnson.

Fabrication Research John Thornton.

Concept Planning Process Realisation: The Methodologies of Architecture and Film Nick Clear.

Interior Eye: Just Build Craig Kellogg.

Practice Profile: Block Architecture Iain Borden.

Building Profile: Raines Court Jeremy Melvin.

Home Run: The Brunswick Centre Bruce Stewart.

McLean's Nuggets Will McLean.

Malediction d'Agamemmon: Jardin de la Guerre du Jardin Charles Jencks.

Site Lines: The National Road David Heathcote + Sue Barr.

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"... worth finding ... the book to read the article by Charles Jenks. His meaning is clear and his language direct." (Building Engineer, October 2006)
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