Digital Property: Open-Source Architecture (Paperback)

About the Guest-Editors 5

Introduction The Ownership Revolution 6

Serving, Owning, Authoring 16

Adaptive Knowledge in Architecture: A Few Notes on the Nature of Transdisciplinarity 26

From Authorship to Ownership: A Historical Perspective 36

A/B Architecture: Publicly Augmented Design 42

Massive Re-Patterning of the Urban Landscape 48

Fab-Union: A Collective Online to Offline Robotic Design Platform 52

Design Instruments of Service in the Era of Connection 60

An Art of Connectivity 68

Post-Digital Transdisciplinarity 74

VULCAN: Closing the Loop in 3D-Printed Architectural Design 82

Architectural Patents and Open-Source Architectures: The Globalisation of Spatial Design Innovations (or Learning from ‘E99’) 92

When Matter Becomes Media: How Our New Tools Are Reinventing Physicality 100

Design Signals: The Role of Software Architecture and Paradigms in Design Thinking and Practice 108

Opening Up the Future of Open Source: From Open Innovation to the Internet of Things for the Built Environment 116

Counterpoint The Culture of the Copy 126

Contributors 134