Architecture in Digital Culture

Machines, Networks and Computation
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-032-14821-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 158 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 254 g

This book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities, and design processes within digital culture.

Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and practice. Along three central themes – machines, networks, and computation – the book begins by discussing transformations of the analogy between architecture and the machine since the early twentieth century, foregrounding questions about the relations between architecture, humans, machines, and the environment. It moves on to the city, to observe how big data and smart city sustainable management systems have transformed historical visions of global networked cities. Lastly, it explores computational design thinking historically and in the context of complex systems, as well as the latest technical, social, and economic developments. Exposing possible drawbacks while still focusing on what is radically innovative, this book proposes a way toward more liberating, digital, and sustainable futures for architecture.

An important read for architecture students, academics, and professionals, this book connects instances of digital architecture practice and discourse throughout the history of the digital culture paradigm and their ties with sociopolitical developments. It shares the possibility that these connecting lines may be the canvas for a novel architectural history of the recent past.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Yiannoudes, Socrates

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Gestaltung, Darstellung, Bautechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Berufspraxis
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Machines 2. Networks 3. Computation Concluding Thoughts

Über Autor(innen)

Socrates Yiannoudes is an Associate Professor at the School of Applied Arts and Culture, University of West Attica. He teaches Architectural Design and Digital Technologies, theory and practice, at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research interests include computational parametric design, architecture in digital culture, as well as the application of science and technology studies in architectural research.