This book is unique because it concentrates on work designed and built by emerging and newly defined practices that, with a do-it-yourself attitude, regularly pioneer techniques and experiment with fabrication processes on a small scale. The means by which these projects were realized are within the reach of many practitioners and students. Here, the architectural project is a form of applied design research. These architects seek to leverage digital design and manufacturing for perceptual, spatial, and formal effect. The projects center on a mode of inquiry whose method of making ultimately forms the design aesthetic. Many of the.