Title & Author:

Architecture in formation : on the nature of information in digital architecture / edited by Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa and Aaron Sprecher.

Publication:

London : Taylor & Francis Ltd., 2013.

Description:

352 pages : illustrations ; 25 x 18 cm

Notes:
Includes transcripts of interviews with: George Legendre, Alessandra Ponte, and Greg Lynn.
Includes essays by: Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Aaron Sprecher, Georges Teyssot, Evan Douglis, Antoine Picon, Chris Perry, and Martin Bressani.
Includes projects by: Diller Scofidio and Renfro; Eisenman Architects; Preston Scott Cohen; Nader Tehrani, Office dA; ATLV and Thom Mayne, Morphosis; Reiser and Umemoto; and Philip Beesley.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Structuring information: toward an architecture of information -- Information interfaces: data and information -- Responsive information -- Evolutionary information -- Extensive information: material information -- Information affect.
Includes mentions of the CCA in "Biographies", and on page [4] of cover.

Summary:

"Architecture in Formation is the first digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians and theorists look at how information processing informs and is informed by architecture. Twenty-nine experimental projects propose radical means to inform the new upcoming digital architecture." --Publisher.

ISBN:

0415534909 (pbk.)
9780415534901 (pbk.)
0415534895 (Cloth)
9780415534895 (Cloth)

Subject:

Cohen, Preston Scott
Mayne, Thom
Beesley, Philip, 1956-
Greg Lynn FORM (Firm)
Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Eisenman Architects
Office dA
Morphosis Architects
Reiser + Umemoto
Architecture and technology.
Architecture Information technology.
Architecture Computer-aided design.
Architecture and technology Designs and plans.
Architecture et technologie.
Architecture et technologie Dessins et plans.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Architecture Data processing.
Architecture Computer simulation.
Architectural design Data processing
Architects Interviews.

Form/genre:

Interviews.
Essays.
Architectural drawings.

Added entries:

Lorenzo-Eiroa, Pablo, editor.
Sprecher, Aaron, editor.
Sprecher, Aaron editor, author, interviewer.
Liaropoulos-Legendre, George interviewee.
Ponte, Alessandra interviewee.
Lynn, Greg interviewee.
Teyssot, Georges, 1946- author.
Perry, Chris author.
Bressani, Martin author.
Tehrani, Nader, 1963- author.
Cohen, Preston Scott architect, author.
Mayne, Thom architect, author.
Beesley, Philip, 1956- architect, author.
Greg Lynn FORM (Firm) architect, author.
Diller Scofidio + Renfro architect, author.
Eisenman Architects architect, author.
Office dA architect.
Morphosis Architects architect, author.
Reiser + Umemoto architect, author.
Centre canadien d'architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 287991
Call No.: BIB 229487
Status: Available