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Digital fabrications architectural and material contextualize the work so that the projects gain techniques documents architecturally innovative specificity in light of the others projects realized through digital design and lastly this book aims to show both working. Digital fabrications architectural and material techniques documents architecturally innovative projects realized through digital design and constructive processes. Going through the projects in lisa iwamotos newly published survey digital fabrications architectural and material techniques princeton architectural press 2009 144 pages gives me the impression that much of the contemporary outlook in architecture especially in its schools has a lot to do with the rediscovery of gottfried semper. Architectural pioneers such as frank gehry and greg lynn introduced the world to the extreme forms made possible by digital fabrication it is now possible to transfer designs made on a computer to computer controlled machinery that creates actual building components. Digital fabrications the second volume in our new architecture briefs series celebrates the design ingenuity made possible by digital fabrication techniques author lisa iwamoto explores the