Reflexive architecture / guest-edited by Neil Spiller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Spiller, Neil.

Series:

Architectural Design ; v. 72, no. 3.

Architectural Design ; v. 72, no. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Environmental aspects.

Architecture.

Physical Description:

128 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Chichester : Wiley, 2002.

Summary:

This volume announces the onset of a new era in architecture. It represents a redefinition of the architectural possibilities that were first opened up by Neil Spiller in his successful cyberspace titles of the late 90s. By looking beyond the present perception of buildings as static architectural objects, Spiller and his contributors concentrate on the potential of buildings to employ dextrous, cutting-edge technologies to create architecture that is reflexive. That is architecture which is highly responsive and intelligent, able to translate and connect to its contextual and environmental surroundings at a new level, while also operating in three or more spaces simultaneously. It is effectively an architecture that is wholly visionary rather than being grounded by the limitations of the present.

Contents:

Beans, Beans, Glorious Beans / Ben Nicholson 6

The Dying Dreamer

Looking into Huysmans' Virtual Worlds / Malin Zimm 14

A Provisional Taxonomy of Slamhounds / Neil Spiller 20

Virtual Facsimiles and Alien Spaces / Christian Groothuizen 28

Zoo: Spider-Space / Peg Rawes 36

Roodee Racecourse: A Choreography of Mythic Inflation / Randy Liekenjie 40

The Reflexive Turbulence of Ghosts

Inconclusive Bodies and Inconclusive Trajectories / Paul Madden 48

Archulus Flood Structure: Aldeburgh Coastline, Suffolk, England / Shaun Murray 56

Speciation, Transvergence Allogenesis Notes on the Production of the Alien / Marcos Novak 64

Trauma Crisis in Red and Organge... / Stuart Munro 72

Heinz von Foerster is a Member of the Viennese Magic Circle / Stephen Gage 80

Placebo Project / Anthony Dunne, Fiona Raby 88

Sony Connected Identity Logos / John Warwicker 94

Interior Eye: The Matchmaker / Craig Kellogg 98

Engineering Exegesis: A Perspective on Embodied Energy / William Reed, Gil Friend of Natural Logic 102

Building Profile: Two Towers, Vienna / Jeremy Melvin 107

Future Perfect or Imperfect / Adrian Forty 111

Practice Profile: Heightened Experience: Caples Jefferson / Jayne Merkel 116

Site Lines: Cordova-Chan Residence / Josep Egea 125

Realms of Impossibility 126.

ISBN:

0470843322

OCLC:

51954734