The active image : architecture and engineering in the age of modeling / Sabine Ammon, Remei Capdevila-Werning, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ammon, Sabine, editor, author.

Capdevila-Werning, Remei, editor, author.

Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

Series:

Philosophy of engineering and technology ; v. 28.

Philosophy of engineering and technology ; volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural models.

Physical Description:

x, 317 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer Verlag, [2017]

Summary:

The "active image" refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of "actions" that images perform. This volume features essays that present a new approach to image theory. It explores the many ways images become active in architecture and engineering design processes and how, in the age of computer-based modeling, images play an indispensable role. The contributors examine different types of images, be they pictures, sketches, renderings, maps, plans, and photographs; be they analog or digital, planar or three-dimensional, ephemeral, realistic or imaginary. Their essays investigate how images serve as means of representing, as tools for thinking and reasoning, as ways of imagining the inexistent, as means of communicating and conveying information and how images may also perform functions and have an agency in their own. The essays discuss the role of images from the perspective of philosophy, theory and history of architecture, history of science, media theory, cognitive sciences, design studies, and visual studies, offering a multidisciplinary approach to imagery and showing the various methodologies and interpretations in current research. In addition, they offer valuable insight to better understand how images operate and function in the arts and sciences in general.

Contents:

Points of departure: notes toward a reversible history of architectural visualization / Reinhold Martin

Architecture and the structured image: software simulations as infrastructures for building production / Daniel Cardoso Llach

Architectural drawings as symbols: a Goodmanian account of epistemic practices in the design process / Remei Capdevila-Werning

Manual sketching: why is it still relevant? / Gabriela Goldschmidt

Operative manufacts: gestures as embodied sketches in the early stages of the design process / Irene Mittelberg, Thomas H. Schmitz, and Hannah Groninger

The role of the image in digital design: processing the image versus imaging the process / Rivka Oxman

Visualization techniques and computational design strategies: reflecting on the milieu and agency of digital tools in 1990s architecture / Nathalie Bredella

People-centered visuospatial cognition: next-generation architectural design systems and their role in design conception, computing, and communication / Mehul Bhatt and Carl Schultz

License to explore: how images work in simulation modeling / Johannes Lenhard

On fuzziness and relationships: abstraction and illustrative visualization in snow avalanche control planning / Doris Hallama

Epilogue: The rise of imagery in the age of modeling Sabine Ammon.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lawrence H. Herring Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9783319859170

9783319564654

331956465X

9783319564661

3319564668

OCLC:

975368337

Publisher Number:

99980893843