Assessment Two Topics & 12 Sources

The two topics for the assessment 2 report were the architect Santiago Calatrava and Parametrics.

Santiago Calatrava is a world renowned architect, sculptor and structural engineer. He
mostly dealt with bridges and train stations but his projects in civil engineering
elevated to new heights. Calatrava style has been described as a bridge that links the
division between structural engineering and architecture, his very own style is
personal and is derived from numerous studies of the human body and the natural
environment.

A parametric model is a model that is defined by a number of parameters or properties
that can be altered by changing values. Parametric design can provide a powerful
concept of architectural form and create a wide range of possibilities replacing in the
process stable with variability and singularity with multiplicity. By using parametric
designers can make iterations of “similar objects, geometric manifestations of a
previously articulated schema of variable dimensional, relational or operative
dependencies”1 and when the values of the variables are changed different instances
are create from a infinite amount of possibilities.

12 Sources.

Parametrics.
Major Source.
Book.
Title: Architecture in the Digital Age: Design & Manufacturing.
Author: Kolarevic, Branko.
Published: Spon Press, 2003.

Minor Sources.

Book.
Title: Free Form Structural Design – Schemes, Systems & Prototypes of Structures
for Irregular Shaped Buildings.
Author: Veltkamp, Martijn.
Published: IOS Press, 2007.

Book.
Title: Dynamic Digital Representations in Architecture.
Author: As, Imdat & Schodek, Daniel.
Published: Taylor & Francis, 2008.

Book.
Title: Digital: Architecture and Construction.
Author: A.Ali & C.A Brebbia.
Published: WIT Press, 2006.

E-Journal.
Title: An Evolution-Based Generative Design System: Using Adaptation to Shape
Architectural Form.
Author: Caldas, Luisa Gama.
Publisher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Issue Date: 2001.
Citable URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/8188

E-Journal.
Title: Architectural Design: Theoretical Meltdown.
Edited by: Puglisi, Luigi Prestinenza
Issue: January/ February 2009.
- Volume 79, issue 1
Article published online: 16 January 2009
Citation: DOI: 10.1002/ad.806

Santiago Calatrava.

Main Source.

Book.
Title: Santiago Calatrava - The Complete Works,
Author: Alexander Tzonis
Published: New York, 2007

Minor Sources.

Book.
Title: Santiago Calatrava.
Author: Catalogue Entries by Erika Samsa, photographs by Paolo Rosselli.
Published in Italy,1998.
Republished by Skira, Milan, 1999.

E-jouranl.
Title: Calatrava Goes Public.
Document Type: Article
Source: Fast Company.
Feb2010, Issue 142. p68-97, 7p.
Authors: Linda Tischler,
Found on Business Source Premier Database off UNSW Library website.
ISSN: 1085-9241

Book.
Title: Santiago Calatrava.
Author: Philip Jodidio
Published: Köln in New York, 1998.

E-journal.
Title: Pas de Deux.
Document Type: Article
Source: Architectural Record
Sep2010, Vol. 198 Issue 9. p70-70, 1p.
Authors: Lentz, Linda C.
Found on Art & Architecture Complete Database off UNSW Library website.
ISSN: 0003858X

Book.
Title: Santiago Calatrava's creative process.
Authors: Alexander Tzonis, Liane Lefaivre, Santiago Calatrava.
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser. 2001

Book.
Title: Movement, structure, and the work of Santiago Calatrava
Author: Alexander Tzonis.
Publisher: Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser, 1995.