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The new technological condition : architecture and design in the age of cybernetics / Georg Vrachliotis ; translation from German into English, Alisa Kotmair.
LIBRA NA2543.C9 V72213 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vrachliotis, Georg, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Geregelte Verhältnisse. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Philosophy.
- Architecture.
- Architecture and technology.
- Technology.
- Cybernetics.
- cybernetics.
- Physical Description:
- 271 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- English edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Basel : Birkhäuser, [2022]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the German.
- Summary:
- "In the era of cybernetics, architects suddenly encountered entirely new ways of operating technical systems: buildings could be calculated using circuit diagrams, creativity and imagination were confronted with the technical intelligence of thinking machines. Architects found themselves in the crosshairs of cybernetics. At stake was nothing less than the continued existence of the architect's inventive intelligence in a techno-scientific world. Today, we see computing machines, once so heavy, losing weight while gaining power. Computers are fully colonizing the human environment, creating their own digital ecosystems, and giving rise to forms of society and ways of being that cannot even be explained without big data."-- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Preface to the English edition (2022)
- Introduction
- Universalization of the machine
- City plan, escape plan
- Between Automation and Metatechnology
- Aesthetics, revolts, calculations
- Swinging cybernetics
- Drawing machines, machine drawings
- Individualization systems
- Epilogue: return to the material
- The re-invention of (the) building : epilogue 2022.
- Notes:
- Edition statement from page 7.
- "First published by Springer Verlag New York/Vienna (2011), then included in a second and slightly revised version in the venerable Bauwelt Fundamente series (2020)."--Page 7.
- Translation of: Geregelte Verhältnisse.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-271).
- ISBN:
- 3035624771
- 9783035624779
- OCLC:
- 1280459747
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