Title & Author:

The Virtual Dimension : Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture / edited by John Beckmann.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1998.

Description:

xi, 359 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Merge invisible layers / John Beckmann -- Flesh space / Stahl Stenslie -- "Space," "being," and other fictions in the domain of the virtual / Frances Dyson -- The medieval return of cyberspace / Margaret Wertheim -- Virtual repression : Hollywood's cyberspace and models of the mind / Claudia Springer -- Reality: photographs / by Erica Baum -- The senses have no future / Hans Moravec -- The abolition of humanity and the contours of the new A-theology / Matthew Aaron Taylor -- Outer space or virtual space? Utopias of the digital age / Floran Röetzer -- Changing space : virtual reality as an arena of embodied being / Char Davies -- Virtual reality and the tea ceremony / Michael Heim -- Architecture in the age of its virtual disappearance / Paul Virilio interviewed by Andreas Ruby -- Photographs of Las Vegas / Arne Svenson -- Stripping architecture / Mark C. Taylor -- Antitectonics : the poetics of virtuality / William J. Mitchell -- Envisioning cyberspace : the design of on-line communities / Peter Anders -- Hypersurfaces : socius fluxus / Stephen Perrella -- Terminal velocities : the computer in the design studio / Stan Allen -- A capacity for endlessness / Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos -- Fresh H²O expo / Lars Spuybrock -- 10 dencies / Knowbotic Research -- Meshworks, hierarchies, and interfaces / Manuel de Landa -- The difference-scape / Asymptote -- Framing the fold : furniture, architecture, geography, and the pursuit of the virtual / Bernard Cache interviewed by Michael Speaks -- Line parable for the virtual (on the superiority of the analog) / Brian Massumi -- The desire to be wired / Gareth Branwyn -- Stelarc : the evolutionary alchemy of reason / Brian Massumi -- Seeing with your eyes : an email discussion between / Vivian Sobchak and John Beckmann.
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Summary:

"In a century of technological acceleration, we have reached a strange new plateau in the human condition. Advanced technologies are dramatically reshaping the way we perceive and interact with our environments. The Virtual Dimension critically examines the role that digital and immersive technologies have on the methods used by architects, designers, and artists to conceptualize and represent both real and virtual spaces. Interdisciplinary in nature, the essays included here address the implications of "going virtual" from a variety of cultural and theoretical viewpoints. Over thirty leading architects, urban theorists, philosophers, scientists, and cultural critics have contributed to this collection, which includes essays and projects by Stan Allen, Peter Anders, Asymptote, Erica Baum, Gareth Branwyn, Bernard Cache, Char Davies, Manuel De Landa, Frances Dyson, Michael Heim, Knowbotic Research, Brian Massumi, William J. Mitchell, Hans Moravec, Stephen Perrella, Florian Röetzer, Andreas Ruby, Vivian Sobchack, Michael Speaks, Claudia Springer, Lars Spuybroek, Stelarc, Stahl Stenslie, Arne Svenson, Mark C. Taylor, Matthew Aaron Taylor, Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos, Paul Virilio, and Margaret Wertheim." -- Back Cover.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

1568981201 (alk. paper)
9781568981208 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Technological innovations.
Architectural design Data processing.
Architectural practice.
Architecture Innovations.
Design architectural Informatique.
Architecture Pratique.
Arquitetura.
Processamento grafico (graphics)
Virtual reality in architecture
Cyberspace
Space (Architecture)

Added entries:

Beckmann, John.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 200041
Call No.: NA2543.T43 V5 1998
Status: Available