An Evolutionary Architecture – John Frazer
September 20th, 2007
An Evolutionary Architecture by John Frazer is a fascinating book that has been out of print for some time. Fortunately it has been made freely available on the web to download and I recommend anyone who’s interesting in interactive and parametric design in architecture to have a look. The book written in 1995 proposes a fundamental change in practice … ‘The role of the architect here, I think, is not so much to design a building or city as to catalyse them: to act that they may evolve.’ – Gordon Pask in his foreword.
Most of the book concentrates on the work of Diploma Unit 11 run by John and Julia Frazer (with Pete Silver and Guy Westbrook) between 1989 and 1996, but includes formative work by the author dating back to his diploma prize-winning project at the AA in 1969 and related research work at Cambridge University.
Introduction
View pages from the book
Exhibition
Download PDFs
Introduction (15.5 mb)
Section 1 (29 mb)
Section 2 (26 mb)
Postscript (7.5 mb)
Appendices (7.5 mb)
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7 Comments Add your own
1. fco | September 20th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Thanks a lot for this PDF’s!!
2. ploomanshi | September 21st, 2007 at 12:54 am
hey, the animations links arent working, apart from that , thanks for for the frequent posts.
Im about to start my first year at uni, and these page has helped tide me over till I start.
thanks again
3. Ruairi | September 21st, 2007 at 9:45 am
Sorry about the animation links, i’ve just edited them out but you can find them on http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/publications/ea/intro.html
I’m glad its of use to you
4. Gaurav Chadha | October 28th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
sir, non of the links mentions above seem to be working..
regards, gaurav
5. juehao | November 8th, 2007 at 3:54 am
Wonderful! But unfortunately, links on AA Publications seem to be missing. Are they moved or removed?
6. d3 | November 12th, 2007 at 11:47 am
the PDF links are broken.
can anyone does anyone still have the PDFs. i d be really interested.
7. Ruairi | November 13th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Yeah it looks like the AA have taken it off their website which is very sad because its a great book. I would love you upload it and host it myself but the book is big and would eat up my bandwidth plus its oh so very illegal. Email me using the contacts tab at the top and who knows, maybe i’ll find a way for you to get hold of it
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