DESIGN AUTOMATIONIN ARCHITECTURALAND BUILDING DESIGN Review of Some Recent Relevant Books THE ARCHITECTAND THE C M U E O PTR by Boyd Auger. Pall Mall Press, London, 1972, i l l , index, 135 pp. There are s t i l l very few books on computers in architecture although there are a number in preparation. Of those already published only two, "Computers Campion's in Architectural Design" by David Campion and "Computer Applications in Architecture and Engineering" by G. Neil Harper merit attention. considerable amount of space devoted to the former. book begins with the hardware and software and proceeds to applications, with Harper's book, as i t s Boyd Auger has The gamut of the The Architect; t i t l e indicates, spends most of i t s time on applications. written a book which l i e s somewhere in between these two. book can be ascertained from a l i s t of the chapter headings: Computers in Design; and Prospects and Conclusions. The Computer; The Design Office Computer; BASYS; BASYSApplications; This is a book for the neophyte who wants a broad, i f somewhat shallow, introduction. I t d i f f e
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