TY - BOOK ID - 69028401 TI - Free form technology from Delft AU - Eekhout, Mick AU - IOS Press. PY - 2015 SN - 1614995532 1614995540 9781614995548 9781614995531 PB - Amsterdam DB - UniCat KW - Architectural design KW - Data processing. KW - Floriade Pavilion KW - Guggenheim Museum KW - Tel Aviv KW - Galleria KW - Berlin KW - Free Form Design KW - Alphen aan den Rijn KW - non-orthogonal KW - DG Bank KW - Malmö KW - engineering KW - Free Form Technology KW - Bilbao KW - Rotterdam KW - Town Hall KW - high rises KW - Greenhouse KW - Hoofddorp KW - Rabin Centre KW - Frank O. Gehry UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69028401 AB - The success of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, designed and engineered by Frank O. Gehry and inaugurated in 1997, opened the eyes of the world to the plastic possibilities of Free Form Design. That is, on the side of architects and their admiring clients. Some architects draw up complicated but surprising and attractive Free Form Designs and win design competitions. The next step is to involve the manufacturing industry and the contractors in realizing these dreams. According to the author(s), the desire and logic for an adapted Free Form Technology will become became apparent after more designs. At Mick Eekhout’s design & build company Octatube the first experiences with Free Form Designs either failed, were aborted, were a disaster or led to unfortunate events such as the bankruptcy of competing firms who took on the projects without major Free Form Design experience. But Free Form design has matured nowadays. Many lessons can be learned from these early experiments, which is the main reason to share these experiences with readers of this book. ER -