# Prototyping for Architects

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- Authors: [Mark Burry](https://www.bookquiver.com/mark-burry), [Jane Burry](https://www.bookquiver.com/jane-burry)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2017-07-06

## Description

Prototyping is an essential part of the designer? s repertoire. Designers prototype their projects to test them, structurally, aesthetically, technically. Whether the prototype works or not is not the point: prototyping is the revelatory process through which the designer gains insight. There are three reasons why contemporary prototyping techniques are transforming the way architects design and build: 1) at a miniature scale, prototyping aids the architect in the presentation to clients of complex spatial ideas; 2) prototyping empowers the architect-designer to test and prove a building? s feasibility, leading to more open-minded construction solutions; 3) whether additive (3D printing) or subtractive (robotic milling), prototyping can lead to unexpected and exciting new possibilities within design as a whole, across design disciplines, thus blurring the boundaries between them in highly creative ways. The book has four sections: an introduction that charts the rise of prototyping in design history, more specifically in architecture; an overview of techniques; a survey section featuring 30 projects, each presented through texts drawn from first-hand interviews, on-site photographs and drawings; and a reference section, which includes a glossary of technical terms.

## Editions

### Prototyping for Architects

- Publisher: thames_and_hudson
- ISBN: 978-05-0029-249-5
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2017-07-06
- Language: en_GB