Main entry:

Prestinenza Puglisi, Luigi, 1956-

Title & Author:

Hyper architecture : spaces in the electronic age / Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi ; afterword by Antonino Saggio ; [translation into English, Lucinda Byatt].

Publication:

Basel ; Boston : Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture, 1999.

Description:

93 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.

Series:

The IT revolution in architecture

Notes:
Translation of: HyperArchitettura.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 87-93).
1. Architecture in the age of electronics: An antecedent: The Pompidou Centre ; Electronic Bauhaus ; A library like a microchip ; Waves in the sea of communication ; Mies+Futurism -- 2. Projection: An antecedent: Duchamp ; Projection and conceptual art ; Verdussen of Utrecht ; Eisenman Verdussen ; Architecture of silence -- 3. Mutation: Transformations ; Metamorphosis ; Dematerialized architecture ; The architecture of the jumping universe ; Architecture in the age of ecology ; A new architecture ; A new language -- 4. Simulation: The art of memory ; Jung's interior telescope; A city where no one dies ; The labyrinth ; Virtual ; Where we are going -- 5. HyperArchitecture--Afterword by A. Saggio: Fluidity squared ; Metaphorization ; To Bill ; Hypertext painter.

Summary:

"The messages of our electronic age are becoming increasingly metaphorical and less assertive. This metaphorization process affects every aspect of society today, as can be seen in design and, although more resistant to change, in the sphere of architecture. A building does not acquire value just because it works, is solid, spatially stimulating and liveable, but because it refers to something else. The process of metaphorization concerns most of today's architecture. Its basic objective is a new interiorization of the landscape and the relations between man and nature, an objective which has been accomplished, or nearly. In order to make further progress and gain ground, we must turn to electronics and, above all, its center: interconnections."--Jacket.

ISBN:

3764360933 (alk. paper)
9783764360931 (alk. paper)
0817660933 (alk. paper)
9780817660932 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architectural design Data processing.
Design architectural Informatique.
Architektur
ARQUITETURA.
DESIGN.
Architecture Informatique.
CAD.
Architecture, Modern 20th century
Space (Architecture)
Architecture Philosophy

Added entries:

Saggio, Antonino, 1955-
IT revolution in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 247300
Call No.: NA2728 .P7 1999
Status: Available