Main entry:

Palumbo, Maria Luisa.

Title & Author:

New wombs : electronic bodies and architectural disorders / Maria Luisa Palumbo ; [translation into English : Lucinda Byatt].

Publication:

Basel : Birkhäuser, 2000.

Description:

93 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.

Series:

The IT revolution in architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Towards a postorganic paradigm -- The dismeasurable body. The man in the circle ; The eyes of olympia: the body as a machine of the senses ; Spaces with figures : the body in prosthesis ; The cyborg: the body without organs -- The project of chaos. Utopia and chaotic attractors ; Urban dismeasurement ; Architectural dismeasurement ; Uprooting ; Fluidity ; A visceral nature ; Virtuality ; Sensitivity -- The logic of complexity. Electronic space ; The corporeal machine ; The architecture of the machine.
Translated from the Italian.

Summary:

"The womb, the mysterious place where life takes shape, has been opened to the world. Today it symbolises a radically new concept of the body, characterised by an unprecedented continuity between exterior and interior; when the naked eye can go no further, artificial sight takes over, revealing life's most intimate and secret aspects. An instrument of this new continuity between surface and depth, the machine leads our eyes and our senses into our body, to the depths of our planet or onto the moon. From being an instrument of alterity between nature and artifice, it has now become the tool for a new dialogue between men, and between man and matter, between man and nature. While the body, invaded and dilated by technology, becomes architecture, architecture in turn looks to the body, not as a model of order and formal measurement, but as a model of sensitivity, flexibility, intelligence and communicative capacity. Whereas the body designs its own spatial extension, architecture designs its corporeal future. In order to translate the sensitive architecture of the living body into new intelligent spaces, the information paradigm must be changed from the mechanical and computational logic of the abstract machine into a logic of visual and metaphorical complexity, the logic that underlies the physical or corporeal basis of living systems."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

3764362944
9783764362942

Subject:

Space (Architecture)
Architecture Philosophy.
Espace (Architecture)
Architecture Philosophie.
architectural theory.
Virtuelle Realität
Utopische Architektur
Architektur
Körper

Added entries:

IT revolution in architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213188
Call No.: NA2543.B6 P3 2000
Status: Available