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Energies
New Material Boundaries
4 Architectural Design ing Titles
July/August 2009 Profile No 200
Digital Cities
Guest-edited by Neil Leach
What is the impact of digital technologies on the design and analysis of cities? For the last 15 years,
the profound impact puter-aided techniques on architecture has been well charted. From the
use of standard drafting packages to the more experimental use of generative design tools and para-
metric modelling, digital technologies e to play a major role in architectural production. But
how are they helping architects and designers to operate at the urban scale? And how might they be
changing the way in which we perceive and understand our cities?
•Features some of the world’s leading experimental practices, such as Zaha Hadid Architects,
R&Sie(n), Biothing and Xefirotarch.
•Takes in exciting emerging practices, such as moh architects, LAVA, kokkugia and THEVERYMANY,
and work by students at some of the most progressive schools, such as the AA, RMIT and SCI-Arc.
•Contributors include: Michael Batty, Benjamin Bratton, Alain Chiaradia, Manuel DeLanda, Vicente
Guallart and Peter Trummer.
September/October 2009 Profile No 201
Architectures of the Near Future
Guest-edited by Nic Clear
In this highly pertinent issue, guest-editor Nic Clear questions received notions of the future. Are the
accepted norms of economic growth and expansion the only means by which society can develop and
prosper? Should the current economic crisis be making us call into question a future of unlimited
growth? Can this moment of crisis – economic, environmental and technological – enable us to make
more informed choices about the type of future that we want and can actually achieve? Architectures of
the Near Future offers a series of alternative voices, developing some of the neglected areas of contem-
porary urban life and original visions of what might be e. Rather than providing simplistic and