As a globally influential architectural firm, UNStudio has been continuously focusing on the integration of interconnected and parameterized design for many years, collaborating with interdisciplinary experts to expand the scope of the architect’s role, actively adapting to changes in the times, and innovatively establishing an efficient and flexible work logic. The four knowledge platforms mentioned in the book “Empowering Knowledge: 11 Tools for Architectural Design”, including innovative organization, sustainable development, intelligent parameters, and innovative materials, and the 11 design tools they contain, are like a knowledge network that weaves together numerous works of UNStudio, constructing a thinking logic that uses path exploration as a design tool..
The inaugural ceremony was presided over by Lu Xinzhi, Deputy Editor in Chief and President of the Architecture Branch of China Architecture Publishing Media Co., Ltd., and delivered speeches by Xian Daqing, General Manager of China Architecture Publishing Media Co., Ltd., and Jing Quan, Deputy General Manager and Deputy Chief Engineer of China Architecture Design and Research Institute Co., Ltd..
Since its establishment, UNStudio has been attempting to analyze, extract, organize, embed, visualize, reinterpret, and produce knowledge, and this book is their latest achievement in recent years. They introduced four specialized knowledge platforms——.
A public space has been established for extracting, researching, and producing knowledge. It covers 11 architectural design tools – giant nodes, distortions, public buildings, controlled atriums, underlying structures, accessibility, scale of connections, modeling information, beyond parameterization, lightweight structures, and dual materials, empowering design knowledge..
By combining these 11 knowledge tools, UNStudio has classified and discussed representative projects completed by law firms in recent years, such as Mercedes Benz Museum, Mobius Residence, Erasmus Bridge, China Art Museum, etc. The book arrangement is distinguished by green, pink, yellow, and blue. When reading, one can not only understand how these 11 tools coordinate to complete architectural design, but also integrate the overall concept of various architectural projects. It is an easy reading material to understand UNStudio’s design concepts and a tool for learning architectural design methods..
