Join the AA Bookshop and authors Mario Carpo and Stephen J Phillips for a drinks reception to celebrate two new releases from MIT Press.
The Second Digital Turn
By Mario Carpo
Launch Price £15 (RRP £20)
Almost one generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and has left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today’s digitally intelligent architecture no longer looks that way. In The Second Digital Turn, Mario Carpo explains that this is because the design professions are now coming to terms with a new kind of digital tools they have adopted – no longer tools for making but tools for thinking. Mario Carpo is the Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett, University College London.
Elastic Architecture
By Stephen J Phillips
Launch Price £25 (RRP £33)
In Elastic Architecture: Frederick Keisler and Design Research in the First Age of Robotic Culture, Stephen Phillips offers the first in-depth exploration of the multidisciplinary research and design practice of Frederick Kiesler, arguing that the modernist architect, designer, theoretician and artist established a new career trajectory for architects not as master builders but as research practitioners whose innovative means and methods could advance alternative and speculative architecture. Stephen J Phillips is Professor of Architecture at California Polytechnic State University.