Title & Author:

Architectural materialisms : nonhuman creativity / edited by Maria Voyatzaki

Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Description:

vi, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

New materialisms

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Causality and meaning in the new materialism / Manuel DeLanda -- Tangible versus intangible materiality : interpreting Gaudí and the colliding forces of traditional and innovative construction / Mark Burry -- Internalising continuous variation / Kas Oosterhuis -- Paramateriality : novel biodigital manifolds / Marcos Cruz -- A vital, architectural materialism : a house-person's escape from the anthropocentric / Pia Ednie-Brown -- Performing bitumen, materialising desiré / Julieanna Preston and Jen Archer-Martin -- Machine-oriented architecture : oikos and ecology / Levi R. Bryant -- The compass of beauty : a search for the middle / Lars Spuybroek -- Architectures of air : media ecologies of smart cities and pollution / Jussi Parikka -- The intelligence of computational design / Luciana Parisi -- Grothendieck topoi : architectural and plastic imagination beyond material number and space / Fernando Zalamea -- Vicarious architectonics, strange objects, chance-bound : Michel Serres's exodus from methodical reason / Vera Bühlmann -- Transmythologies / Maria Voyatzaki.

Summary:

Maps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich internal dynamism and its multifaceted context. By transversally crossing disciplinary boundaries, new and profound insights into contemporary thinking and creating architecture emerge. 0Combining the dynamism of materiality and the capacities of nonhuman machines towards prototyping spatiotemporal designs and constructs leads to alternative conceptions of the human, of ethics, aesthetics and politics in this world yet-to-come.

ISBN:

1474420575
9781474420570

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Materialism.
Architecture Philosophie.
Matérialisme.

Added entries:

Voyatzaki, Maria, editor.
New materialisms (Edinburgh, Scotland)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 310032
Call No.: BIB 255163
Status: Available