Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Twenty years of digital design -- Architecture after the age of printing (1992) -- Visions unfolding: architecture in the age of electronic media / Peter Eisenman -- The Affects of singularity / Peter Eisenman -- Folding in architecture (1993) -- Architectural curvilinearity: the folded, the pliant and the supple / Greg Lynn -- Shoei Yoh, Prefectura Gymnasium / Greg Lynn -- The Architectural relevance of cyberspace (1995) -- The Architectural relevance of cyberspace / John Frazer -- Architectural experiments / John Frazer -- The Digital and the global (1996) -- Yokohama International Port Terminal / Foreign Office Architects -- Field conditions (1997) -- From object to field / Stan Allen -- Nonlinear architecture (1997) -- Nonlinear architecture: new science = new architecture? / Charles Jencks -- Landform architecture: emergent in the nineties / Charles Jencks -- Hypersurfaces (1998) -- Motor geometry / Lars Spuybroek -- Salt water live: behaviour of the Salt Water Pavilion / Kas Oosterhuis -- Embryologic Houses℗♭ (2000) -- Embryologic Houses℗♭ / Greg Lynn -- Versioning (2002) -- Introduction to versioning: evolutionary techniques in architecture / SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli -- Eroding the barriers / SHoP/Sharples Holden Pasquarelli -- Topological architecture (1998-2003) -- Bernard Cache/Objectile: topological architecture and the ambiguous sign / Stephen Perrella -- Philibert De L'Orme Pavilion: towards an associative architecture / Bernard Cache -- Morphogenesis and emergence (2004-2006) -- Introduction to emergence: morphogenetic design strategies / Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Michael Weinstock -- Polymorphism / Achim Menges -- Scripting (2006) -- 20 years of scripted space / Malcolm McCullough -- Collective intelligence (2006) -- Introduction to collective intelligence in design / Christopher Hight and Chris Perry -- Computational intelligence: the grid as a post-human network / Philippe Morel -- Elegance (2007) -- The Economies of elegance, migrating coastlines: Residential Tower, Dubai / Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle -- Deus ex machina: from semiology to the elegance of aesthetics / Mark Foster Gage -- Building information modelling ( 2009) -- Optimisation stories: the impact of building information modelling on contemporary design practice / Richard Garber -- A New global style (2009) -- Parametricism: a new global style for architecture and urban design / Patrik Schumacher.

The digital turn in architecture has gone through several stages and phases, and Architectural Design (AD) has captured them all. This anthology of AD's most salient articles is chronologically and thematically arranged to provide a complete historical timeline of the rise to pre-eminence of computer-based design and production. A much-needed pedagogical and research tool, this synopsis also relates the present state of digitality in architecture to the history and theory of its recent development and trends. Architectural students, scholars, and practicing architects will find this book an invaluable reference.