Instabilities and potentialities : notes on the nature of knowledge in digital architecture / edited by Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Ahrens, Chandler, editor.
• Sprecher, Aaron, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Architecture--Philosophy.
• Architectural design--Data processing.

Physical Description:

xxii, 251 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, this book explores post-digital culture to understand its impact on theoretical discourse and design processes in architecture. The role of digital technologies and its ever-increasing infusion of information into the design process entails three main shifts in the way we approach architecture: its movement from an abstracted mode of codification to the formation of its image, the emergence of the informed object as a statistical model rather than a fixed entity, and the increasing porosity of the architectural discipline to other fields of knowledge. The book aims to bridge theoretical and practical approaches in digital architecture.

Contents:

• Episodes in the Emergence of Imaging Practices / Mark Linder
• Objects: Technology, Technique, Techné: Creation vs Contingency in Computational Design / Alvin Huang
• Dissimilar at First Sight: Structural Abstraction and the Promises of Isomorphism in 1960s Architectural Theory / Theodora Vardouli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

• 9781138583986
• 1138583987
• 9781138583993
• 1138583995

OCLC:

1060191117