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Digital Culture in Architecture An Introduction for the Design Professions

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ISBN-10: 3034602596

ISBN-13: 9783034602594

Edition: 2010

Authors: Antoine Picon

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Todaya (TM)s explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. From the preliminary sketch all the way to the production of individual building components, digital tools offer new possibilities that were still inconceivable just a few years ago. This volume provides a profound introduction to the important role of digital technologies in design and execution. In four chapters, the author systematically examines the…    
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Book details

List price: $62.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publication date: 4/9/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.45" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

K. Michael Hayes is Adjunct Curator of Architecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Professor of Architectural Theory at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.nbsp;Dana A. Miller is Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.K. Michael Hayes is Adjunct Curator of Architecture at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Professor of Architectural Theory at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University.nbsp;Dana A. Miller is Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Introduction
People, Computers and Architecture: A Historical Overview
The emergence of the society of information
The rise of computer epistemology
Cybernetics in architecture and planning: patterns, systems and networks
The formalist turn in postmodernism and critical theory
Digital culture, space and sociability
Architecture as interface
Experiments in Form and Performance
The seduction of innovative geometries
Diagramming Complexity
The surface as architecture
From animation to algorithmics
Intricate or minimalist elegance?
Digital age subjectivity, performance and meaning
From Tectonic to Ornament: Towards a Different Materiality
Contemporary technology as Landscape
The crisis of scale and tectonic
From memory to oblivion
Reinventing ornament
A different Materiality
Materials by design
Design strategies and professional perspectives
Will robotization take command?
The City in the Digital Sprawl
Urban features in the digital age
A City of individuals
An augmented urban reality
Events, simulations and scenarios
Towards a splintered city?
Conclusion
Material Continuity and the Design Practice
Index
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