Architectural materialisms : nonhuman creativity / edited by Maria Voyatzaki

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Voyatzaki, Maria, editor.

Series:

New materialisms (Edinburgh, Scotland)

New materialisms

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Materialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 328 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2018.

Summary:

This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich internal dynamism and its multifaceted context.

Contents:

Causality and meaning in the new materialism / Manuel DeLanda

Tangible versus intangible materiality : interpreting Gaudí and the colliding forces of traditional and innovative construction / Mark Burry

Internalising continuous variation / Kas Oosterhuis

Paramateriality : novel biodigital manifolds / Marcos Cruz

A vital, architectural materialism : a house-person's escape from the anthropocentric / Pia Ednie-Brown

Performing bitumen, materialising desiré / Julieanna Preston and Jen Archer-Martin

Machine-oriented architecture : oikos and ecology / Levi R. Bryant

The compass of beauty : a search for the middle / Lars Spuybroek

Architectures of air : media ecologies of smart cities and pollution / Jussi Parikka

The intelligence of computational design / Luciana Parisi

Grothendieck topoi : architectural and plastic imagination beyond material number and space / Fernando Zalamea

Vicarious architectonics, strange objects, chance-bound : Michel Serres's exodus from methodical reason / Vera Bühlmann

Transmythologies / Maria Voyatzaki.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 May 2021).

ISBN:

1-4744-5390-2

1-4744-2059-1

1-4744-2058-3

OCLC:

1306540930