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2004-2005 form·Z Joint Study Journal

This online 2004-2005 form·Z Joint Study Annual Report is the same as that printed and distributed to all the members as well as friends of the Joint Study Program.

Note that the complete JS Report as distributed also includes a CD, which displays the material sent to us, organized alphabetically by school. You can request a copy from ZwebMaster@formz.com, as long as supplies last.

This online Report has been produced as a Portable Document Format (pdf), and it is quite interactive. Clicking on "Table of Contents" below will launch Acrobat Reader in your web browser.

The 2004-2005 Joint Study Report is a thematic report of articles relating to the use of form·Z. The Table of Contents lists these articles. You may click on any article to read it.

Each article is in a self-contained PDF containing one to eight pages. The navigation links for the PDFs are listed here:


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The 2004-2005 form·Z Joint Study report

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Table of Contents

Joint Study Award Winners
Some Notes on the Production of Digital Form
Replicas Museum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A Town Landmark for Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
A Tsunami Memorial
Interpreting Babel
[n]DN: Networked Design Machines
Infrastructure Ubanity
The Digital Self: An Organic Processor
Habitat(ion)
Institute for Jazz Studies at Fort Adams
Interstitial Space
World Music Center
Modelling Tool as a Form Generator
Hybrid Systems: Reconstructing New Spatial Networks
The Reliquary
Master Plan La Aurora

Learning How to Give Meanings to Geometrical Objects in 3D Virtual Space
Escape from the City
Facilities of Relaxation
Digital Modeling for Fabrication
Digital and Analog Strategies for Design Studio
Form Follows Concept: Boldly Going Where Computers Can't
Making Viewscape
The Gibbes Installation: a Digital, Manual and Perceptual Production
Analog-Digital Light Box Exercise
Digital/Analogue Methodologies: Integration and Abstraction
Between the Drawn and the Actualized

Conceptualizing the Digital
Urban Mobility Mapping
Modeling Flexible Mars Greenhouse Prototypes
Transforming Habit

Design and Modeling as Parts of an Integrated Approach
Program, Structure, and Skin
The Impact of the Computer on a High School Architectural Design Class
Developing Visual Skills for Perspective Viewing and Rendering

Ancient Principles Inform 3D Production Design
A Fertile Ground for Education: Quick Visualization Tool is a Requirement of Today's
Competitive Environment

How do You Teach 3D Imaging to Beginners in a Hurry
Know Thyself
Forms of Performance: Explorations in a Digital Design Studio