Title & Author:

Designing for a digital world / edited by Neil Leach.

Publication:

Chichester : Wiley-Academic, 2002.

Description:

141 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
"Produced in association with RIBA Future Studies."
Includes bibliographical references.
Digital culture : The digital renaissance / Douglas Rushkoff ; Forget Heidegger / Neil Leach ; E-futures and e-personae / Sherry Turkle ; Cybervisuality: recoding perception / Sarah Chaplin ; The cult of the not yet / Richard Coyne -- Digital cities : E-bodies, e-building, e-cities / William J. Mitchell ; Urban agency: making interfaces inflammable: public access, excessive manifestations, connective confrontations and tactical withdrawals / Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler and Andreas Broeckmann (Knowbotic Research) with Wilfried Prantner ; Telephony / Sadie Plant ; Digital lifestyles and the future city / Andrew Gillespie ; GMCity[sm]: the genetically modified city (2001) / David Turnbull (ATOPIA) -- Digital tectonics : Roller-coaster construction / Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera Polo (Foreign Office Architects) ; Electronic purveyance practices in architecture / Marcelyn Gow ; wetGRID: the soft machine of vision / Lars Spuybroek with Arielle Pélenc ; Smectic state / Mark Goulthorpe (dECOi) ; Robotic fields: spatialising the dynamics of corporate organisation / Patrik Schumacher ; Deleuze and the use of the genetic algorithm in architecture / Manuel DeLanda -- Digital realities : From virtual reality to the virtualisation of reality / Slavoj Žižek ; The unconscious destiny of capital (Architecture in vitro/machinic in vivo) / Karl S. Chu (Metaxy) ; Architecture = space = interface / Hani Rashid (Asymptote) ; Plan for now / Jeffrey Inaba (AMO) ; Skim.com / Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos (UN Studio).
Also issued online.
Library c. 2: on label affixed to spine: 72.01.036 LEA/B1.

Summary:

"Digital technologies are changing the way that we live and work today. But what impact are they having on the discipline of architecture? This volume brings together some of the world's leading voices from digital theory, technology and design to address this question. With a discussion ranging from broad cultural concerns to new techniques of construction, Designing for a Digital World offers a snapshot of informed opinion at a crucial juncture in the history of the discipline."--Page [4] of cover.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0470844191
9780470844199

Subject:

Electronic data processing Social aspects.
Architectural design Technological innovations.
Architectural design Forecasting.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Design Innovations.
Design Conception assistée par ordinateur.
Design architectural Innovations.
Design architectural Prévision.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Architecture, Modern.
ArchiCAD
Städtebau
Dreidimensionale Rekonstruktion
Architecture and technology.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Digital electronics.
Architectural design Data processing
London <2001>

Added entries:

Leach, Neil.
Rushkoff, Douglas
Turkle, Sherry
Chaplin, Sarah
Coyne, Richard
Wilhelm, Yvonne.
Mitchell, William J. (William John), 1944-2010
Huebler, Christian.
Broeckmann, Andreas
Prantner, Wilfried.
Plant, Sadie, 1964-
Gillespie, A. E.
Turnbull, David (Architect)
Moussavi, Farshid
Zaera, Alejandro
Gow, Marcelyn, 1966-
Spuybroek, Lars
Pelenc, Arielle
Goulthorpe, Mark
Schumacher, Patrik, 1961-
De Landa, Manuel
Žižek, Slavoj
Chu, Karl S.
Rashid, Hani, 1958-
Inaba, Jeffrey
Berkel, Ben van, 1957-
Bos, Caroline, 1959-
RIBA Future Studies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291723
Call No.: BIB 234441
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 291105
Call No.: BIB 234441
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available