New Technologies

Praxis 6, New Technologies://New Architectures focuses on the relationship between architecture and contemporary technologies of production. The issue highlights projects that use recent developments in building systems, performance standards and fabrication methods to rethink conventional approaches to material and structure. Projects include innovative approaches to recycled or sustainable materials; building operation and conditioning; off-site assembly and fabrication; rapid prototyping; and cnc milling. Essays and projects by Sanford Kwinter, Greg Lynn, Bill Massie, deCoi, Shop Architects, Peter Testa, OMA, Morphosis, Atelier Ten, Kieran and Timberlake, Sheila Kennedy, Anthony Townsend, Hilary Sample and Antoin Picon.