The Designer in the Informational Shift

Building Information Modeling; Computational design; Data-driven design practices; Digital practices; Evidence-based postures; Informational changeover; Performance-based postures; Engineering (all); Arts and Humanities (all); Social Sciences (all)

Abstract :

[en] This chapter focuses on the digital transformation of a specific aspect of Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Operations: that of architectural design. More specifically, it discusses the shift of digital practices in architectural design towards information-centered practices. The chapter proposes to identify this shift from the perspective of the relationship to data of significant emerging digital practices, in particular: the information practices of Building Information Modeling and those of computational design. It looks at emerging information practices by also exploring what the so-called data-driven design practices mean for architecture. The chapter explains “performance-based” and “evidence-based” postures, in order to situate them in the field of possibilities opened up by the information regime. It addresses the issues of informational changeover from the point of view of the evolution of project approaches in architecture.

Disciplines :

Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others

Author, co-author :

de Boissieu, Aurélie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département ArGEnCo

Language :

English

Title :

The Designer in the Informational Shift

Publication date :

2024

Main work title :

Architectural Design Instruments: Conditions of Appearance, Modes of Appropriation and Reconfigurations of Practices

Publisher :

wiley

ISBN/EAN :

978-1-394-30083-9
978-1-78945-105-4

Peer reviewed :

Editorial reviewed

Additional URL :

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/9781394300839.ch5

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