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Picon, Antoine.
Digital culture in architecture : an introduction for the design professions / Antoine Picon. - Basel : Birkhaeuser, 2010. - 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- People, computers and architecture: a historical overview : the emergence of the society of information ; The rise of computer epistemology ; Cybernetics in architecture and planning; patterns, systems and networks ; The formalist turn in postmodernism and critical theory ; Digital culture, space and sociability ; Architecture as interface -- Experiments in form and performance : The education of innovative geometries ; Diagramming complexity ; The surface of architecture ; From animation to algorithmics ; Intricate or minimalist elegance? ; Digital age subjectivity, performance and meaning -- From tectonic to ornament: towards a different materiality : Contemporary technology as landscape ; The crisis of scale and tectonic ; from memory to oblivion ; reinventing ornament ; A different materiality ; Materials by design ; Design strategies and professional perspectives ; Will robotization take command? -- The city in the digital sprawl : Urban features in the digital age ; A city of individuals ; An augmented urban reality ; Events, simulations and scenarios ; Towards a splintered city? -- Conclusion : Material continuity and the design practice.
9783034602594 (alk. paper) 3034602596 (alk. paper)
Architecture and technology.
Architectural design--Philosophy.
Computer-aided design
Virtual reality in architecture.
Architecture, Modern--21st century.
720 / P548
Digital culture in architecture : an introduction for the design professions / Antoine Picon. - Basel : Birkhaeuser, 2010. - 224 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- People, computers and architecture: a historical overview : the emergence of the society of information ; The rise of computer epistemology ; Cybernetics in architecture and planning; patterns, systems and networks ; The formalist turn in postmodernism and critical theory ; Digital culture, space and sociability ; Architecture as interface -- Experiments in form and performance : The education of innovative geometries ; Diagramming complexity ; The surface of architecture ; From animation to algorithmics ; Intricate or minimalist elegance? ; Digital age subjectivity, performance and meaning -- From tectonic to ornament: towards a different materiality : Contemporary technology as landscape ; The crisis of scale and tectonic ; from memory to oblivion ; reinventing ornament ; A different materiality ; Materials by design ; Design strategies and professional perspectives ; Will robotization take command? -- The city in the digital sprawl : Urban features in the digital age ; A city of individuals ; An augmented urban reality ; Events, simulations and scenarios ; Towards a splintered city? -- Conclusion : Material continuity and the design practice.
9783034602594 (alk. paper) 3034602596 (alk. paper)
Architecture and technology.
Architectural design--Philosophy.
Computer-aided design
Virtual reality in architecture.
Architecture, Modern--21st century.
720 / P548