Eigen Architecture : computability as literacy / editors, Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Bühlmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hovestadt, Ludger, author.

Contributor:

Hovestadt, Ludger.

Bühlmann, Vera.

Series:

Applied Virtuality Book Series

Applied virtuality book series, 2196-3118

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architect-designed houses--Catalogs.

Architect-designed houses.

Architecture, Modern--19th century--Catalogs.

Architecture, Modern.

Architecture, Modern--20th century--Catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Place of Publication:

Vienna : Ambra|V, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dieses Buch verschiebt den Bezugsrahmen der Netzwerk- und strukturorientierten Diskussionen von den angewandten Technologien des 20. Jahrhunderts zurück zur Abstraktheit der Mathematik des 19. Jahrhunderts. Es liest George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann Grassmann und Bernhard Riemann auf überraschende Art und Weise neu. EigenArchitecture argumentiert in Richtung einer Kompetenz des Digitalen. Sie kann die Kunstfertigkeit im Geometrischen ablösen. So kann sich die Architektur von den heutigen ökonomischen, technokratischen und bürokratischen Zwangsjacken befreien: von den physikalistischen Optimierungen, den soziologischen Balancierungen und den ideologischen Naturalisierungen. Das Buch enthält einen programmatischen Text über die Rolle der Technologie in der Architektur, einen philosophischen Text über das Generische und das algebraische Artikulieren, und sechs Beispiele von postgraduierten Studenten des Jahres 2012 an der Professur für CAAD an der ETH Zürich, Schweiz.

This book shifts the frame of reference for today's network- and structure oriented discussions from the applied computational tools of the 20th century back to the abstractness of 19th century mathematics. It re-reads George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann Grassmann and Bernhard Riemann in a surprising manner. Eigen Architecture argues for a literacy of the digital, displacing the role of geometrical craftsmanship. Thus, architecture can be liberated from today's economical, technocratic and bureaucratic straight jackets: from physicalistic optimization, sociological balancing, and ideological naturalizations. The book comprises a programmatic text on the role of technology in architecture, a philosophical text on the generic and on algebraic articulation, and six exemplary projects by postgraduate students in 2012 at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Cultivating the generic / Hovestadt, Ludger

Four Chairs and all the others / Roman, Miro

Hard-Boiled World Wide Web And The End Of Distance / Pedrojevic, Stanislava

Hybridity as an Urban Speculation / Ageeva, Ekaterina

Eigenwindow As A Reflection Of Singaporeans' Cultural Diversity / Miskeljin, Bojana

Articulating a thing entirely in its own terms / Bühlmann, Vera

Generic Villa / Mezari, Melina

Exiled to the Virtual World or the Inconsistency of the Real / Alvarez, Diana

A House of Things / Rodriguez, Mauricio

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 25, 2014).

ISBN:

3-99043-627-9

OCLC:

880868654