Protoarchitecture: Analogue and Digital Hybrids

The illusive and uncertain world of translating ideas into matter is a negotiation between the ideal and the real and a central preoccupation of architectural production. By invading the toolbox of digital fabrication, design has transgressed into protocols of manufacturing previously the domain of other disciplines and skills sets. Craft, assembly and installation, once the realm of trades, are qualities that are now dependent upon design information and its status as an instruction to make. The ensuing loop between the physical and tactile, the imaginary and speculative, has defined a new expectation in making architecture as a construct that is part real, part ideal.

With contributions from Lebbeus Woods, Evan Douglis, Theo Jansen, Shin Egashira and many more, Protoarchitecture presents an explicitly diverse collection of works from leading and emerging practitioners, educators, researchers and visionaries from all corners of this innovative field.

將想法轉化為實物的翻譯世界充滿著迷與不確定性，是建築生產的核心關注點之一。通過介入數字製造工具箱，設計已經侵犯了先前屬於其他學科和技能領域的製造協議。工藝、組裝和安裝，曾經是交易領域，現在取決於設計信息及其作為製作指令的地位。物理和觸感之間的循環，想像和推測之間的循環，已經定義了建築製作的新期望，作為一種既真實又理想的構造。

《Protoarchitecture》收錄了來自領先和新興從業者、教育者、研究人員和願景家的明確多樣化作品，包括Lebbeus Woods、Evan Douglis、Theo Jansen、Shin Egashira等人的貢獻。這些作品來自創新領域的各個角落，展示了這一領域的前沿成果。