Baroque Tendencies: The Making of Northcote House
“This is a book about art, passion and craft ... It gives a profound behind-the-scenes, even outtakes, view of how to make—and how to design through making.”
—Jane Burry
Baroque Tendencies explores how and why the Northcote house came to be. It is a manual and a manifesto. A ‘How-to of Digital Fabrication’, it details the novel techniques LLDS 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. LLDS 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.
