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Aa Vv – Digital Architecture: Critical Concepts in Architecture

Quest’oggi vi porto un’antologia di saggi sull’architettura digitale, curata da Mark Burry, valida se non come lettura (si veda più avanti volume e prezzo) validissima almeno come indice di riferimenti bibliografici.

Aa Vv
Digital Architecture: Critical Concepts in Architecture
a cura di Mark Burry
ed. Routledge

Anche questo non è disponibile in digitale. E ho già detto come la penso a riguardo, quindi non mi ripeto.

‘Digital architecture’ is a relatively recent critical concept and encompasses all aspects of the discipline of architecture engaging with computation. It has evolved into a domain in its own right, as it were, rather than always being present from the first time architects ceded slide rule use in favour of electronically assisted computation. As this major collection reveals, we have witnessed growth of a creative digital influence across all of architecture’s subdisciplines and few can deny that there is now a maturity in the conversation which had been previously quite elusive. As a major work of collected critical insights Digital Architecture therefore compiles the key texts that will be as useful to the initiate as to the experienced professional, as relevant to the academician as to the practitioner and as revealing to the sceptic as they will be to the digitally converted. It does not promote any particular stream of innovation nor establish any particular cultural agenda.

Il cartaceo cuba 1660 pagine e ha un costo spaventoso, 612 £, si organizza in 6 parti spalmate su 4 volumi per un totale di 104 saggi. Le parti sono:

  • Information and Data Management,
  • Digital Representation,
  • Computer Science’s Philosophical Contributions to the Culture of Architecture,
  • Design Computation and Computer Programming,
  • Novel Architectural Design,
  • Digital Architecture as Transdisciplinary Bridge Builder.

Al suo interno, mi sento di segnalare almeno:

1. Yehuda E. Kalay, ‘Redefining the Role of Computers in Architecture: From Drafting/Modelling Tools to Knowledge-Based Design Assistants’, (1985);
27. Carlo Ratti e Paul Richens, ‘Raster Analysis of Urban Form’ (2004);
29. Gordon Pask, ‘The Architectural Relevance of Kenetics’ (1969);
30. John von Neumann, ‘The Role of High and of Extremely High Complication’ e ‘Re-evaluation of the Problems of Complicated Automata – Problems of Hierarchy and Evolution’ (1966);
37. John H. Frazer, ‘The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics’ (1993);
43. Patrick Janssen, John Frazer e Tang Ming-Xi, ‘Evolutionary Design Systems and Generative Processes’ (2002);
49. Usman Haque, ‘The Architectural Relevance of Gordon Pask’ (2007);
66. Robert Aish e Robert Woodbury, ‘Multi-Level Interaction in Parametric Design’ (2005);
86. Neri Oxman, ‘Digital Craft: Fabrication Based Design in the Age of Digital Production’ (2007);
88. Mario Carpo, ‘Nonstandard Morality: Digital Technology and Its Discontents’ (2008);
100. Francois Roche, ‘(Science) Fiction & Mass Culture Crisis’ (2004).

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