Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : From process to workflow : designing design, designing assembly, designing industry / Scott Marble -- Designing design. Beyond efficiency / David Benjamin ; Precise form for an imprecise world / Neil Denari ; Workflow patterns : a strategy for designing design / Amdam Marcus ; Intention to artifact / Phil Bernstein ; Diagrams, design models and mother models / Ben van Berkel -- Designing assembly. Designing assembly : how tools shape materials that constitute space / Frank Barkow & Regine Leibinger ; Digital craftsmanship : from thinking to modeling to building / Fabian Scheurer ; Algorithmic workflows in associative modeling / Shane M. Burger ; Workflow consultancy / Scott Marble and James Kotronis ; The scent of the system / Jesse Reiser & Nanako Umemoto -- Designing industry. What do we mean by building design? / Paolo Tombesi ; Shift 2D to 3D / Thom Mayne ; Disposable code; persistent design / Marty Doscher ; Continuous integration / Craig Schwitter & Ian Keough ; Designing education / John Nastasi.

The assimilation and synthesis of digital communications among architects, engineers, fabricators and builders is dramatically altering how we work and our relationship to the tools we use. New digital capacities are restructuring the organization and hierarchy of design from autonomous processes to collective workflows. The historical role of the designer as an author, a sole creator, is being replaced with semi-autonomous, algorithmically driven design workflows deeply embedded in a collective digital communication infrastructure. This is creating a number of pressures on the discipline of architecture to reorganize around the opportunities, and risks, of these changes.