Publications

Data, Matter, Design

Strategies in Computational Design

Frank Melendez, Nancy Diniz, and Marcella Del Signore, eds.

Data, Matter, Design: Strategies in Computational Design edited by Frank Melendez, Nancy Diniz, and Marcella Del Signore, published by Routledge.

The book presents a comprehensive overview of current design processes that rely on the input of data and use of computational design strategies, and their relationship to an array of outputs. It includes a wide range of curated projects and contributed texts by leading architects, urbanists, and designers that transform data as an abstraction into spatial, experiential, and performative configurations within urban ecologies, emerging materials, robotic agents, adaptive fields, and virtual constructs.

Available through Routledge and Amazon.

Book chapters and contributing authors:

Data + Urban Ecologies
Ila Berman, Mona El Khafif, Marcella Del Signore, Steven Beites, Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Alejandro Mieses Castellanos, Fábio Duarte and Carlo Ratti, Cordula Roser Gray, Adam Marcus

Data+ Emerging Materials
Nancy Diniz, Frank Melendez, Christine Marizzi, Wendy W Fok, Allison Dring, Daniel Schwagg, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Paul Nicholas, Martin Tamke, Tom Svilans, Gyungju Chyon, John Stanislav Sadar

Data + Robotic Agents
Ebrahim Poustinchi, Gergana Rusenova, Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Hannes Mayer, Fabio Gramazio, Matthias Kohler, Achim Menges, Mark Parsons, Aaron Beebe, Martin Orr, Greg Sheward, Aldo Sollazzo, Eugenio Bettucchi

Data + Adaptive Fields
Michael Szivos, Nataly Gattegno, Jason Kelly Johnson, María Fullaondo, Lee-Anne Khor, Ciro Márquez, Carla Leitão, Ed Keller, Moritz Behrens, Konstantinos Mavromichalis, Ava Fatah gen Schieck

Data + Virtual Constructs
Ming Tang, Mara Marcu, Adam Schueler, Gwyllim Jahn, Cameron Newnham, Nick van den Berg, Nancy Diniz, Frank Melendez, Sebastián Morales, Woraya Boonyapanachoti, Elena Pérez Guembe, Rosana Rubio-Hernández, Richard Laing, Marianthi Leon, Claire Herbert, Cheryl Roberts