The Winter 2012 (vol. 14 no. 3) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features seven original papers dedicated to the theme “Digital Fabrication”. Digital fabrication is changing architecture in fundamental ways in every phase, from concept to artifact. Projects growing out of research in digital fabrication are dependent on software that is entirely surface-oriented in its underlying mathematics. Decisions made during design, prototyping, fabrication and assembly rely on codes, scripts, parameters, operating systems and software, creating the need for teams with multidisciplinary expertise and different skills, from IT to architecture, design, material engineering, and mathematics, among others The papers grew out of a Lisbon symposium hosted by the ISCTE-Instituto Universitario de Lisboa entitled “Digital Fabrication – A State of the Art”. The issue is completed with four other research papers which address different mathematical instruments applied to architecture, including geometric tracing systems, proportional systems, descriptive geometry and correspondence analysis. The issue concludes with a book review.

建築という物理的な営みが、実体のないコードによって再定義される。本作は、デジタル技術が設計思想を根底から揺さぶる「知の変革」であることを鮮烈に示します。数理的な美しさが素材の重みへと変換されるプロセスには、科学と芸術が交差する瞬間の高揚感が宿っています。 多分野の知性が交錯し、数式という抽象言語が建築へと昇華されるドラマは圧巻です。数学的秩序が導く新たな美学は、私たちの感性を未知の領域へ誘うでしょう。静謐な論理の裏に潜む創造への情熱。それは、未来を夢想する者の魂を震わせる、極上の知的冒険に他なりません。