Authors/david mah
Senior lecturer in urban design and architecture at the University of Melbourne’s school of design. David has taught at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, Cornell University’s department of architecture at the graduate design school of the Architectural Association in London. David is an author of the book: Lifestyled Health and Places (Jovis). Together with Leire, his creative works have been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Art in London, the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York and for the National Gallery of Victoria’s Melbourne Design Week amongst others.
Systems Upgrade
(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
Leire Asensio Villoria & David Mah
Systems Upgrade offers a design research approach that leverages the embodied knowledge latent within the material legacies of design history for direct applicability in creative practice. This long-spanning research into the construction of links between the deep study of precedent and future practice has been advanced through a simultaneous engagement with digital archeology and the new tools of creative practice. Invested in the belief of a need to open design and its material legacies to a multiverse, this research has yielded a collection of methods, techniques and novel outcomes grounded in history yet openly speculative in outlook.
Systems Upgrade extensively illustrates an engagement with some of the most notable works of the Austrian American sculptor and designer Erwin Hauer. This book highlights several important phases of this specific design research project to provide a detailed view of how a series of bridges between analysis
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