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Routledge Builders of the Vision: CAD Software Design History

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Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Numerical Control from the years following World War II to today. Drawing from primary archival and ethnographic sources, this Routledge book identifies and documents the crucial ideas shaping digital design technologies since the first numerical control and CAD systems were developed under US Air Force research contracts at MIT between 1949 and 1970. The work explores the cybernetic theorisation of design as a human-machine endeavour and the vision of computers as problem-solving tools that transformed architectural and engineering practice. Essential reading for design historians, architects, and those interested in how technology reshaped creative thinking and production methods in the twentieth century.

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Routledge publication offering comprehensive archival research into the development of Computer-Aided Design systems from 1949 onwards.

Explores how US Air Force contracts at MIT between 1949 and 1970 led to the creation of the first numerical control and CAD technologies.

Examines the cybernetic theorisation of design as a collaborative human-machine process that revolutionised digital design practices.

Combines primary archival sources and ethnographic research to document how CAD software transformed architectural and engineering design.

Covers contemporary practices in digital design technology and the lasting intellectual legacy of early computer-aided design innovations.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
03 June 2015
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14 October 2014

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