Title & Author:

Beauty matters : human judgement and the pursuit of new beauties in post-digital architecture / guest-edited by Yael Reisner.

Publication:

Oxford : John Wiley & Sons Ltd, [2019]
©2019

Description:

136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Series:

Profile ; no. 261
Architectural design ; vol. 89, 05

Notes:
"September/October 2019."
"05:2019"--Spine
Includes bibliographical references.
About the guest editor Yael Reisner -- Architecture and beauty: a symbiotic relationship / Yael Reisner -- Beauty in architecture: not a luxury, only a necessity / Semir Zeki -- Truth and beauty: the role of aesthetics in mathematics and physics / Robbert Dijkgraaf -- The return of beauty: driving a wedge between objects and qualities / Graham Harman -- Abstraction and informality generate a new aesthetic: an interview with Kazuyo Sejima -- New solids and massive forms / Winka Dubbeldam -- Which beauty will guide us? Seeking a reflective, sustainable, socially engaged visual culture / Izaskun Chinchilla and Emilio Luque -- Chromatic compositions: design dissonance and the aesthetic of fusion / Nannette Jackowski and Ricardo de Ostos -- Beauty as ecological intelligence: bio-digital aesthetics as a value system of post-anthropocene architecture / Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto -- The primacy of relationships and the reclamation of beauty / Jeanne Gang: observed and interviewed / Peter Cook -- The geometry of seduction: considerations of beauty from noun to verb / David A. Garcia -- A specific theory of models: the posthuman beauty of weird scales, snowglobes and supercomponents / Tom Wiscombe -- Ambiguous, bipolar beauty: and similarly agile and fragile post-digital practices / Marjan Colletti -- Deep immediacy: programming beauty / Stefan Rutzinger and Kristina Schinegger -- Beauty is in the back story: diversity, complexity and collaborative making in the Australian condition: in coversation with John Wardle / Fleur Watson and Martyn Hook -- In search of the unseen: towards superhuman intuition / Alisa Andrasek -- In part whole: the aesthetics of the discrete / Gilles Retsin -- A rose by any other name would smell as sweet: finding beauty in the past century / Alan Powers.

Summary:

Beauty in architecture matters again. This issue of AD posits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back. This is evidenced by a current cultural shift from the supposedly objective to an emerging trust in the subjective. The renewed fascination for aesthetics is supported by new knowledge emanating simultaneously from disparate disciplines. Digital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term 'post-digital' was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition. This issue of AD takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the international architects, in both practice and academe, who are generating new aesthetics.

ISBN:

9781119546245 (paperback)
1119546249 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture Aesthetics.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Architecture Esthétique.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.

Added entries:

Reisner, Yael, editor, contributor.
Zeki, Semir, contributor.
Dijkgraaf, R., contributor.
Harman, Graham, 1968- contributor.
Sejima, Kazuyo, 1956- interviewee.
Dubbeldam, Winka, contributor.
Ostos, Ricardo de, contributor.
Pasquero, Claudia, contributor.
Poletto, Marco, contributor.
Gang, Jeanne, interviewee.
Wiscombe, Tom, contributor.
Colletti, Marjan, 1972- contributor.
Rutzinger, Stefan, 1977- contributor.
Schinegger, Kristina, 1979- contributor.
Watson, Fleur, contributor.
Hook, Martyn, contributor.
Andrasek, Alisa, contributor.
Retsin, Gilles, contributor.
Powers, Alan, 1955- contributor.
Profile (Chichester, England) ; no. 261.
Architectural design (London, England : 1971) ; v. 89, no. 5.

Holdings:

Location: Library main periodicals 306844
Call No.: W.A755
Copy: 2019-05 (September/October 2019)
Status: Available