Title & Author:

Instabilities and potentialities : notes on the nature of knowledge in digital architecture / edited by Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher.

Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
©2019

Description:

xxii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : On the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture / Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher -- Episodes in the Emergence of Imaging Practices / Mark Linder -- Objective Perspective / David Freeland and Brennan Buck -- Interview / Dana Cupkova -- The Line, the Drawing, and the Model / Viola Ago -- Qualitative Spaces --> Spatial Operating Environments / John Carpenter -- Life Attracts Life / Nicholas de Monchaux -- In Medias Res : Atmospheres and Hauntings / Martin Bressani -- In Pursuit of Novel Form : Super Lights / Volkan Alkanoglu -- Interview / Thom Mayne -- Objects : Technology, Technique, Techné : Creation vs. Contingency in Computational Design / Alvin Huang -- Post-Digital as Design Authorship : In Informed Material Processes / Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa -- Mapping in the Age of Electronic Shadows / Alessandra Ponte -- Machines in Architecture : From Performance to Accident : A Modern Trope and Its Afterlife / Laurent Stalder -- Design Outside of the Frame : A Role of Architects in the Era of Artificial Intelligence / Satoru Sugihara -- Interview / Greg Lynn -- Exercises in Style : A Transdisiplinary Discussion / Tom Shaked and Uri Dubin -- From an Autopoietic to a Sympoietic Architecture Discipline / Jose Sanchez -- Dissimilar at First Sight : Structural Abstraction and the Promises of Isomorphism in 1960s Architectural Theory / Theodora Vardouli -- Digital Fabrication, Between Disruption and Nostalgia / Antoine Picon.

Summary:

Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, this book explores post-digital culture to understand its impact on theoretical discourse and design processes in architecture. The role of digital technologies and its ever-increasing infusion of information into the design process entails three main shifts in the way we approach architecture: its movement from an abstracted mode of codification to the formation of its image, the emergence of the informed object as a statistical model rather than a fixed entity, and the increasing porosity of the architectural discipline to other fields of knowledge. The book aims to bridge theoretical and practical approaches in digital architecture.

ISBN:

9781138583986 hardcover
1138583987 hardcover
9781138583993 paperback
1138583995 paperback
electronic book
9780429506338
electronic publication
9780429014000
9780429014017
Mobipocket electronic book
9780429013997

Subject:

Architecture Philosophy.
Architectural design Data processing.
Architecture Philosophie.
Design architectural Informatique.

Added entries:

Ahrens, Chandler, editor.
Sprecher, Aaron, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305381
Call No.: BIB 251205
Status: Available