Hybrid Space: New Forms in Digital Architecture Book

If you're the teensiest bit fed up of reading about "clicks 'n' mortar", you've come to the right book. Hybrid Space brings together the work of some of the most experimental and radical practitioners in this field--both architects who use digital techniques and media designers who turn to architectural methods.The book luxuriously showcases architectural projects using digital media to its greatest potential. Paris-based Decoi, for instance, created a complex that would sit inside a volcanic crater in the Philippines; LA-based Morphosis' offers Hippocampus, a conceptual microcosm of a city that "translates space into a stream of time in which things and events can be assimilated, linked and manipulated".Zellner isn't shy about his ambitions: to redefine the boundaries of architecture, mutate it into something that can cope with "an increasingly supple and volatile world". Bart Lootsma paraphrases it in his foreword: "Our strategy today should be to infiltrate architecture with other media and disciplines to create a new crossbreed". The book's lush graphics let you reap the benefits of Zellner's planned infiltration. --Liz BaileyRead More