Title & Author:

Softspace : from a representation of form to a simulation of space / edited by Sean Lally & Jessica Young.

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Description:

ix, 161 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.

Series:

Architecture at Rice University

Notes:
Preface : The stuff between, in, and around / Sean Lally & Jessica Young -- Introduction : Energies, matter and the gradients of space / Sean Lally -- Putting out the fire with gasoline: entropy and homeostasis from the second machine age to the information age / Christopher Hight -- Potential energies / Sean Lally, Weathers -- The phenomena of the non-visual / Michelle Addington -- Nested capacities, gradient thresholds and modulated environments: towards differentiated and multi-performative architectures / Michael Hensel & Achim Menges, Ocean North -- Dissipative procedures: optimization through 'phenomenonization' / Open Source Architecture, Chandler Ahrens, Eran Neumann, and Aaron Sprecher -- Cybernetic anything ... / Marcelyn Gow, servo -- The archoid chimera: electric space as social machine / Tobi Schneidler, maoworks -- Eco_logics / Helene Furján -- Matter and sense / Jason Payne & Heather Roberge, Gnuform -- Postscript : This pipe is not a pipe dream / Lars Lerup -- Postscript : I, the scent cube and CSI: or, the controlled soft interior / Bart Lootsma.

Summary:

"SOFTSPACE explores how once elusive conditionings of space are now opening entirely new possibilities for our understanding, creation and experience of architecture. In the past, advancements in the visualization and simulation of energies and material qualities - such as air, gas, fire, sound, scent and electricity - have been used simply to refine preconceived spatial, organizational and formal conditions. More recently, the appropriation of digital tools into architectural design has been focused on innovative form, structure and geometries while neglecting the vast range of materials and energies previously dismissed as simply atmospheric, qualitative or residual to the design process." "Today, through the development and dissemination of technologies, these energies and intensities can become architectural materials visualized and operated upon as systematically and accurately as the forces that guide structure and geometry. SOFTSPACE explores the spatial and organizational potential of these advancements, and their relation to historical and ideological trajectories. Through contributions by emerging architectural practices and essayists, SOFTSPACE takes stock of current advancements in design and research and examines the potentials of such "energy matters" to act as catalysts for design innovation today."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
E-book - Full text from Ebook Central
Publisher description
Table of contents only

ISBN:

0415402018 (hardback ; alk. paper)
9780415402019 (hardback ; alk. paper)
0415402026 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780415402026 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0203967135 (ebk.)
9780203967133 (ebk.)

Subject:

Architectural design.
Architecture Research.
Architecture and technology.
Design architectural.
Architecture Recherche.
Architecture et technologie.
Architecture and techology.
Space (Architecture)

Added entries:

Lally, Sean, 1974-
Young, Jessica.
Architecture at Rice University ; 41.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 257266
Call No.: BIB 187716
Status: Available