Title & Author:

The politics of parametricism : digital technologies in architecture / edited by Matthew Poole and Manuel Shvartzberg.

Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Description:

xiv, 258 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index.
1. Introduction / Matthew Poole and Manuel Shvartzberg -- The Historical Pertinence of Parametricism and the Prospect of a Free Market Urban Order / Patrik Schumacher -- On Numbers, More or Less / Reinhold Martin -- There is No Such Thing as Political Architecture. There is No Such Thing as Digital Architecture / Neil Leach -- Parametricist Architecture Would be a Good Idea / Benjamin Bratton -- Play Turtle, Do It Yourself. Flocks, Swarms, Schools, and the Architectural-Political Imaginary / Manuel Shvartzberg -- Breeding Ideology: Parametricism and Biological Architecture / Christina Cogdell -- Speculation, Presumption, and Assumption: The Ideology of Algebraic-to-Parametric Workspace / Matthew Poole -- Undelete: Recreating Censored Archives / Laura Kurgan and Dan Taeyoung -- Disputing Calculations in Architecture: Notes for a Pragmatic Reframing of Parametricism and Architecture / Andrés Jaque -- Parametric Schizophrenia / Peggy Deamer -- The Architecture of Neoliberalism / Teddy Cruz -- Parameter Value / Phillip G. Bernstein -- Spinoza's Geometric and Ecological Ratios / Peg Rawes.

Summary:

"Over the last decade, 'parametricism' has been heralded as a new avant-garde in architecture, urban design, and industrial design, regarded by many as the next grand style in the history of architecture. From buildings to cities, the built environment is increasingly designed and constructed using digital software based on parametric scripting platforms which claim to process complex physical and social models alike. However, critical questions concerning these cultural and technological shifts are often eclipsed by the seductive aesthetic that parametric design tools and their architectural products and discourses represent. The Politics of Parametricism addresses these issues, offering a provocative collection of new essays written by leading international thinkers in the fields of digital architecture, theory, and technology. Exploring the social, political, ethical, and philosophical issues at stake, each chapter provides a different vantage point on the challenges and solutions presented by the processes of parametric architecture and urbanism."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9781472581662 (hardback)
1472581660 (hardback)
9781472581655 (paperback)
1472581652 (paperback)
9781472581686
9781472581679

Subject:

Architectural design Data processing.
Architecture Computer-aided design.
Architecture Technological innovations.
Design architectural Informatique.
ARCHITECTURE Methods & Materials.
ARCHITECTURE General.
DESIGN History & Criticism.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING Industrial Design Product.

Added entries:

Poole, Matthew, editor.
Shvartzberg, Manuel, editor.
Poole, Matthew editor.
Shvartzerg, Manuel editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291741
Call No.: BIB 235519
Status: Available