Books in the AD Reader series

The first definitive book on the diagram in architecture - an umbrella work that brings together key images and essential reading.

The current transition from Computer Aided Design (CAD) to Computational Design in architecture represents a profound shift in design thinking and methods. Representation is being replaced by simulation, and the crafting of objects is moving towards the generation of integrated systems through designer-authored computational processes.

Heterogeneous space, with its emphasis on differentiation, is more relevant to the contemporary condition, which encourages the mixing of space, than a much more static conception of Modernist space. This book provides a highly pertinent and contemporary understanding of space for a new generation of students and architects.

The reader reprints extracts of key historical texts - those of Daniel Bell on the post-industrial society and Jean-Francois Lyotard on the post-modern condition. The new cultural logic of contested pluralism is analysed in seminal papers by Andreas Hyssen and Jim Collins.

A reader on fabrication in architecture for practitioners and producers alike. It provides a treatment on the subject of fabrication in architecture with its emphasis on contemporary technology, cultural history and theory.