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Flowcharting : from abstractionism to algorithmics in art and architecture / Matthew Allen.
LIBRA NA682.S77 A44 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Allen, Matthew (Professor of architecture), author.
- Series:
- Gta papers
- gta edition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Structuralism (Architecture)--History.
- Structuralism (Architecture).
- Structuralism.
- Constructivism (Art)--History.
- Constructivism (Art).
- Constructivism (Architecture)--History.
- Constructivism (Architecture).
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--History--20th century.
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).
- Architectural design--History--20th century.
- Architectural design.
- Architecture, Modern--20th century.
- Architecture, Modern.
- Art, Modern--20th century.
- Art, Modern.
- Design--History--20th century.
- Design.
- Flow charts.
- Art, Modern--20th century--History.
- structuralism.
- Genre:
- History
- Physical Description:
- 155 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Zürich : gta Verlag, [2023]
- Summary:
- "By the time the computer arrived on the architectural scene, its place had been prepared by decades of avant-gardist experimentation. The modernist program of rationalizing creative practice took a decidedly bureaucratic turn between two generations of constructivists in the 1930s and 1960s. From Paris to Cambridge, painters, poets, designers, and architects poured their energy into cracking the code of artistic genius in hopes of democratizing the creation of better environments, thus stimulating a nascent repertoire of algorithmic techniques. The motivation to use these new techniques emerged from attempts to understand art and architecture through serial effects. By reformulating their disciplines in terms of flowcharting procedures developed in the field of scientific management, artists and architects enacted a paradigm shift that had long been a cherished dream of modernism, replacing composition with organization as the basis of design."--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Prologue
- From Circle to Data: avant-garde routines
- Structuralism: the form of language
- Structuralist activity in Form
- Motivating the algorithm
- The flowchart as algorithmic technique
- Programming architecture.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783856764456
- 3856764453
- OCLC:
- 1390714660
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