The architecture machine : the role of computers in architecture / Teresa Fankhänel and Andres Lepik (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fankhänel, Teresa, editor.

Lepik, Andres, editor.

Technische Universität München. Architekturmuseum, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and technology--Exhibitions.

Architecture and technology.

Architectural design--Data processing--Exhibitions.

Architectural design.

Computer-aided design--Exhibitions.

Computer-aided design.

Architectural design--Data processing.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

247 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Role of computers in architecture

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2020]

Summary:

"Today, it is hard to imagine the everyday work in an architectural practice without computers. Bits and bytes play an important role in the design and presentation of architecture. The book, which is published in the context of an exhibition of the same name of the Architekturmuseum der TUM at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich (October 14, 2020 to January 10, 2021), for the first time considers-in depth the development of the digital in architecture. In four chapters, it recounts this intriguing history from its beginnings in the 1950s through to today and presents the computer as a drawing machine, as a design tool, as a medium for telling stories, and as an interactive communication platform. The basic underlying question is simple: Has the computer changed architecture? And if so, by how much?"--Provided by publisher

Contents:

The computer as a drawing machine

Paper(less) architecture: medial and institutional superimpositions / Anna-Maria Meister

Architecture, computer, and technological unrest: Toward an architectural history of anxiety / Georg Vrachliotis

Case studies

The computer as a design tool

Architecture goes digital: the discrete / Mollie Claypool

Creativity and problem-solving: tracing the stakes of computer-aided design / Molly Wright Steenson

The computer as a medium for story-telling

Seeing by numbers: a short history of computer renderings / Roberto Bottazzi

Movement, time, and architecture / Teresa Fankhänel

Playing architect. Designing with computer games / Felix Torkar

Computing choice: self-design, configurators, and the enumerative imagination / Theodora Vardouli

Architectural software timeline / Philip Schneider and Teresa Fankhänel

Drawing and modeling

Rendering and animation

Scripting and analysis.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Architekturmuseum der TUM, Munich, October 14, 2020-January 10, 2021.

ISBN:

3035621543

9783035621549

OCLC:

1145913626