Bartlett Tutor Publishes New Book, ‘Disruptive Technologies' for Springer

Published by Springer, ‘Disruptive Technologies: The Convergence of New Paradigms in Architecture’ gathers speculative contributions from some of the most acclaimed voices in architectural theory, education, and practice, examining the development of architecture, alongside other disciplines, as a series of radical experiments and technological progressions that bring us to the present frontier of computational architectural design. The volume, compiled over 18 months, includes contributions from two other Bartlett academics, Roberto Bottazzi and Vishu Bhooshan.

The book is part of the Springer Series in Adaptive Environments, a collection of publications that explore multidisciplinary, cutting-edge research around spatial constructs and systems that are specifically designed to be adaptive to their surroundings and to their inhabitants. The wide-ranging series spans architecture and design, materials and urban research, wearable technologies, robotics, data mining, machine learning, sociology and psychology.

‘Disruptive Technologies: The Convergence of New Paradigms in Architecture’ is available now at Springer’s website and at Amazon, in e-book and hardcover formats.

Philippe Morel is co-director of Architectural Computation MSc/MRes and teaches on Urban Design MArch for Research Cluster 11 (RC11) at The Bartlett. He is an architect and theorist, co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research (2000) and initiator and founding CEO of the large-scale 3D-printing corporation XtreeE (2015). He is also an Associate Professor at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Malaquais, where he heads the Digital Knowledge department (co-founded with Pr. Girard). He was previously an invited Unit and Research Cluster tutor at The Bartlett, a seminar and studio professor at the Berlage Institute (Netherlands), a History & Theory lecturer at the Architectural Association, and a DRL Studio master (AA). His ongoing interest in the elaboration of a theory of computational architecture is well expressed in his numerous essays, projects and lectures. 

His co-editor Henriette Bier teaches and researches at Technical University Delft (TUD) with a focus on robotics in architecture, and has also taught computational design at universities in Austria, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. She completed her PhD on System-Embedded Intelligence in Architecture; she was also appointed as a professor at Dessau Institute of Architecture, and a visiting researcher at PoliMi. She has initiated and coordinated a workshop and lecture series on Digital Design and Fabrication, and coordinated EU-funded projects E-Archidoct and F2F Continuum (2007-10), led NL-funded projects Scalable Porosity and Adaptive Stiffness (2015-18), and ESA-funded project Rhizome (2021-22). Results of her research are published in books, journals and conference proceedings and she regularly lectures and leads workshops internationally.

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Image: Taken from Chapter 10: From Disruptions in Architectural Pedagogy to Disruptive Pedagogies for Architecture by Dr Sevgi Türkkan. Collage by Anıl Aydınoğlu.