Flowcharting : from abstractionism to algorithmics in art and architecture / Matthew Allen.

Main entry:

Allen, Matthew (Architect), author.

Title & Author:

Flowcharting : from abstractionism to algorithmics in art and architecture / Matthew Allen.

Publication:

Zürich : gta Verlag, [2023]
©2023

Description:

155 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.

Series:

gta edition

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Prologue -- From Circle to Data: avant-garde routines -- Structuralism: the form of language -- Structuralist activity in Form -- Motivating the algorithm -- The flowchart as algorithmic technique -- Programming architecture.

Summary:

"By the time the computer arrived on the architectural scene, its place had been prepared by decades of avant-gardist experimentation. The modernist program of rationalizing creative practice took a decidedly bureaucratic turn between two generations of constructivists in the 1930s and 1960s. From Paris to Cambridge, painters, poets, designers, and architects poured their energy into cracking the code of artistic genius in hopes of democratizing the creation of better environments, thus stimulating a nascent repertoire of algorithmic techniques. The motivation to use these new techniques emerged from attempts to understand art and architecture through serial effects. By reformulating their disciplines in terms of flowcharting procedures developed in the field of scientific management, artists and architects enacted a paradigm shift that had long been a cherished dream of modernism, replacing composition with organization as the basis of design."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9783856764456
3856764453

Subject:

Structuralism (Architecture) History.
Structuralism.
Constructivism (Art) History.
Constructivism (Architecture) History.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) History 20th century.
Architectural design History 20th century.
Architecture, Modern 20th century.
Art, Modern 20th century.
Design History 20th century.
Flow charts.
Art, Modern 20th century History.
Structuralisme (Architecture) Histoire.
Structuralisme.
Constructivisme (Art) Histoire.
Constructivisme (Architecture) Histoire.
Design architectural Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture 20e siècle.
Art 20e siècle Histoire.
Design Histoire 20e siècle.
Ordinogrammes.
Art 20e siècle.
structuralism.
Architectural design
Architecture, Modern
Art, Modern
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Constructivism (Architecture)
Constructivism (Art)
Design
Structuralism (Architecture)

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Gta papers.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 325330
Call No.: 325330
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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