Abstract
Integrating computer-aided design with computer-aided fabrication and construction will fundamentally redefine the relationship between design and construction. Rapid prototyping is evaluated as one of integration methods but it has been regarded as expensive and complex design evaluation tool and is only suitable for large mechanical design shops in automobile and aerospace industry. But current status of rapid prototyping is changing since the new generation of RP equipments, less expensive and more user-friendly, now can be installed and use in design firms. Simultaneously increasing use of 3D CAAD software is also helping to use rapid prototyping widely. Frank O. Gehry is the one who use these technologies for his design add-on values and famous for his non-linear building design with exclusive use of RP and CAAD software such as CATIA. It is crucial to acknowledge rapid prototyping technologies are not only for avant-garde architect such as Frank O. Gehry but ordinary 90% architects, who can have benefit from fast and cost-effective technology. As described above, this research will focus on how he can be benefit from these technologies and extract the factors from Frank O. Gehry's design process.
