Elegance in the Age of Digital Technique

Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle of Contemporary Architecture Practice introduce this issue of AD by exploring how elegance represents a maturity in digital design practice. In order to undertake this new level of formal sophistication, mastery of technique and innate creative ability have to be combined with a multilayered design complexity. It is only then that the architect is able to fully tackle the multiple constraints and external demands of a project in gestation.