Title & Author:

Media house project / IAAC, Institut d'arquitectura avancada de Catalunya ; [editor, Vicente Guallart ; photographs, Laura Cantarella, Luis Ros ; translation: Edward Krasny and others].

Publication:

Barcelona : IAAC, 2004.

Description:

263 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 24 cm

Notes:
A project by Metápolis; Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory; Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in association with ELISAVA and Internet 2 a Catalunya.
"The house is the computer. The structure is the network."--Cover
Internet / O. Neil Gershenfeld, Raffi Krikorian and Danny Cohen -- The house is the computer, the structure is the network / Vicente Guallart -- The knowledge house / Artur Serra -- Theoretical framework / Manuel Gausa -- Headline / Enric Ruiz Geli -- The media house / Ramon Sanguesa -- Visions -- Research -- Intelligent environment / Vicente Guallart -- People -- Housing X-ray I / Laura Cantarella -- I am a robot / Sophie Cornanguer -- gRAM / Susana Noguero -- Space -- Intelligent space / Ramon Sanguesa -- What is housing space like today? / Marguerita Giuffre -- Informative space / Susana Noguero -- Objects -- Housing X-ray II / Laura Cantarella -- Networks -- Metastructures / Willy Muller -- Structure versus infrastructure / Max Sanjulian -- Limits / Enric Ruiz -- Contents -- Intermediated space / Nuria Diaz Castanon -- Media kitchen / Marcos Gonzalez and Susana Juan -- Self editor / Yoel Lenti -- Play place / Marina Turro, Karina Cocho and M. Angeles Garcia -- Chromatherapy / Estela Ocampo -- Video conference -- chroma room / Nadala Fernandez and Techno Trends -- Domos -- house Web site / Enric Gili -- Webhouse -- area 3 -- Home Web -- Production -- Implementation-building intelligence / Neil Gershenfeld and Raffi Krikorian -- Metapolis, architectural research meeting -- Presentations -- Digital day at media house -- Agenda for the informational home.

Summary:

"The Media House Project is the fruit of a strategic alliance between the metapolis group from Barcelona, the MIT media lab, and the Fundacio Politecnica de Catalunya, with the collaboration of the consortium I2CAT and the Elisava Design School, in order to build a prototype of an informational house." "The project enables the testing of the progression of information technologies beyond that of computers and integrates them into everyday life, literally looking to build computers from the components of buildings, in such a way, that the logical intelligence of a structure can grow with its physical form."--Jacket

ISBN:

8460908658 (pbk.)
9788460908654 (pbk.)

Subject:

Intelligent buildings.
Information technology.
Home automation.
Electronic data processing.
Immeubles intelligents.
Technologie de l'information.
Domotique.
intelligent buildings.
information technology.

Added entries:

Guallart, Vicente.
Institut d'Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya.
Instituto Metápolis de Arquitectura Avanzada.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Media Laboratory.
Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232185
Call No.: NA7387.B3 M4 2004
Status: Available