{"product_id":"9781922601414","title":"Baroque Tendencies: The Making of Northcote House","description":"\u003cb\u003eAuthor: Paul Loh \u0026amp; David Leggett\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNorthcote House is a strikingly singular building. Designed and built by David Leggett and Paul Loh – two design practitioners who operate in a fertile confluence between architecture, academia and fabrication – it represents a grand experiment in using digital manufacturing tools to transform the art and craft of construction. Both machinic and handcrafted, Northcote House’s expressive, almost baroque form is the product of these tools, which rarely make it outside universities onto building sites.Baroque Tendencies explores how and why this house came to be. It is a manual and a manifesto. A ‘How-to of Digital Fabrication’, it details the novel techniques Leggett and Loh used to fabricate, construct and assemble the house. In the process, it shows how this blend of conventional construction practice with digital fabrication achieves efficiencies in material use, spatial organisation and positive environmental impacts.Leggett and Loh argue that their particular mode of design and construction, what they call ‘digital material practice’, is neither theory nor practice, but rather an engaged form of design research. In this book, they share the knowledge they have gleaned from their work with practitioners, architecture students and anyone interested in how architecture has taken an unexpected turn towards the baroque.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN 9781922601414. Uro Publications. hb. 296 pages. full colour. 26.8 x 20.4 cm.\u003cbr\u003ePublication date: October 2025.\u003cbr\u003ein stock\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Uro Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47007167250589,"sku":"9781922601414","price":69.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/1439\/9645\/files\/9781922601414.jpg?v=1780618262","url":"https:\/\/wholesale.manic.com.au\/products\/9781922601414","provider":"Books at Manic Wholesale","version":"1.0","type":"link"}