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 r s from both Campion's and Harper's books in that In a The primarily one system combining both hardware and software is described. and the choice of some of the applications to be described is mysterious. about the architect and the computer. "The Architect and the Computer" is an easy book to read; written by an volume as thin as t h i s , i t is hard to do justice to the many topics introduced Gyroton Structure produces an interesting photograph but t e l l s us very l i t t l e architect for other architects, i t w i l l be useful for the novice who i f he is interested further w i l l have to go elsewhere for more information. J.S. GERO COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN by J. Vlietstra and R.F. Wielinga (eds.). 1973. i l l . , index, v i i i + 462 pp. what effect is i t having on design; what is there a are there special North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam, Computer-Aided Design: what is i t ; areas does i t cover; languages involved; what can I expect from i t as a designer; difference between i t and computer-augmented design; and what effect w i l l i t have on me? I t is to many of these questions that the contents of this book are directed. During October, 1972, IFIP supported a working conference on computer-aided design (CAD); this volume presents both the papers and the discussion from that conference. a. Thelscoi~e~of the conference was defined as follows; ~ : T ' Definition ana;analysis of CAD in order to i d e n t i f y those aspects of the design process and computer technology that combine to produce successful CAD applications.
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Book review: THE ARCHITECT AND THE COMPUTER by Boyd Auger (Pall Mall Press, London, 1972)
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