Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Birkhäuser, [2020]
©2020

Description:

247 pages : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
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 -- Case studies -- 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 -- Case studies -- Playing architect. Designing with computer games / Felix Torkar -- Computing choice: self-design, configurators, and the enumerative imagination / Theodora Vardouli -- Case studies -- Architectural software timeline / Philip Schneider and Teresa Fankhänel -- Drawing and modeling -- Rendering and animation -- Scripting and analysis.

Exhibitions:

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

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

ISBN:

3035621543 (hardcover)
9783035621549 (hardcover)
(pdf)
9783035621570

Subject:

Architecture and technology Exhibitions.
Architectural design Data processing Exhibitions.
Computer-aided design Exhibitions.
Architecture et technologie Expositions.
Design architectural Informatique Expositions.
Conception assistée par ordinateur Expositions.
Architectural design Data processing.
Architecture and technology.
Computer-aided design.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Fankhänel, Teresa, editor.
Lepik, Andres, editor.
Technische Universität München. Architekturmuseum, host institution.

Role of computers in architecture

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308567
Call No.: BIB 253937
Status: Available