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Artificial neuronal networks open up radical new pathways for image creation. On the basis of textual prompts, machine-learning algorithms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion generate imagery that is simultaneously familiar and alien. Graphic designer Floyd Schulze uses this rapidly developing technology to recreate architectural icons. In an accompanying essay, Georg(...)
Hey computer: Icons of architecture, rebuilt by AI
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Artificial neuronal networks open up radical new pathways for image creation. On the basis of textual prompts, machine-learning algorithms like Midjourney and Stable Diffusion generate imagery that is simultaneously familiar and alien. Graphic designer Floyd Schulze uses this rapidly developing technology to recreate architectural icons. In an accompanying essay, Georg Vrachliotis takes up the topic on the theoretical level. ''Hey Computer!'' is the first book to deal with AI-generated architectural imagery from an artistic perspective.
Digital Architecture
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''148 Oblique Drawings by Serban Ionescu'' (and 1 large machine made of words) lures readers into Serban Ionescu’s sketchbook where the artist’s vibrant creations, with their playful, architectural spirit, live alongside a poem made with the help of friends and family of the Ionescu–Apartamento universes. The art book compiles a series of images made throughout Serban’s(...)
Serban Ionescu: 148 oblique drawings
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''148 Oblique Drawings by Serban Ionescu'' (and 1 large machine made of words) lures readers into Serban Ionescu’s sketchbook where the artist’s vibrant creations, with their playful, architectural spirit, live alongside a poem made with the help of friends and family of the Ionescu–Apartamento universes. The art book compiles a series of images made throughout Serban’s daily drawing practice from 2020–2023, which relied on '‘the same ruler, the same size paper…and the flow of watercolour'’.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Seeing like a city
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Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and(...)
Seeing like a city
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Seeing like a city means recognizing that cities are living things made up of a tangle of networks, built up from the agency of countless actors. Cities must not be considered as expressions of larger paradigms or sites of human effort and organization alone. Within their density, size and sprawl can be found a world of symbols, bodies, buildings, technologies and infrastructures. It is the machine-like combination, interaction and confrontation of these different elements that make a city.
Urban Theory
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"Archiving machines" advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultures of information that have led to platforms that assert control over its use. Amelia Acker examines the origins of data archives and the computing processes of storage, exchange, and transmission.(...)
Archiving machines: From punch cards to platforms
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"Archiving machines" advances our understanding of memory, information, and data by charting the struggle between the computing technologies that archive data and the cultures of information that have led to platforms that assert control over its use. Amelia Acker examines the origins of data archives and the computing processes of storage, exchange, and transmission. Each chapter introduces data archiving processes that relate to the evolution of data sovereignty we experience today: from magnetic tape and timesharing computer models from the 1950s, to the establishment of data banks and the rise of database processing and managed data silos in the 1970s, to file structures and virtual containers in cloud-based information services over the past 40 years.
Archive, library and the digital
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L’œuvre de Tolkien est une implacable dénonciation du pouvoir, dont les formes les plus tyranniques sont explicitement accusées d’être responsables des violences qui dévastent la Terre du Milieu et ses habitants. Pourtant, depuis quelques décennies, l’extrême droite multiplie les tentatives d’accaparement de l’univers tolkienien. En effet, stratèges et intellectuels à la(...)
Tolkien contre les machines : Écologie et antifascisme en Terre du Milieu
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L’œuvre de Tolkien est une implacable dénonciation du pouvoir, dont les formes les plus tyranniques sont explicitement accusées d’être responsables des violences qui dévastent la Terre du Milieu et ses habitants. Pourtant, depuis quelques décennies, l’extrême droite multiplie les tentatives d’accaparement de l’univers tolkienien. En effet, stratèges et intellectuels à la solde des réactionnaires qui briguent le pouvoir, ou qui l’ont déjà pris, tentent de combler un vide culturel. Pour ce faire, ils ne trouvent rien de mieux que d’essayer de s’approprier une œuvre populaire, certes, mais qui défend l’exact opposé de ce que prône leur idéologie.
Critical Theory
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Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is vividly examined in separate chapters through synchronous comparison and with the help of examples. The emergence of corresponding metaphors, knowledge,(...)
Inhabited machines: Geneaology of an architectural concept
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Around 1800, one of the most influential architectural concepts of the last 250 years emerged—that of built spaces as technical devices. Climate, morality, and comfort are the three main themes of this study, and each is vividly examined in separate chapters through synchronous comparison and with the help of examples. The emergence of corresponding metaphors, knowledge, and construction forms is traced over a period of about 70 years. The author focuses particularly on the operative dimension of architecture. Thus, the book provides a historical perspective on a key topic for the future of architecture. The book is aimed at readers interested in architecture, technology or the cultural history of building and living.
Architectural Theory
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The future is no longer the distant, mythical condition it once was to us. Technology has placed it at our fingertips, it wasn't so long ago that we marveled at devices that could tell us where we were at that exact moment; it became odd when they recently began to tell us where we would soon be. The most important issue, however, might not be whether a future coproduced(...)
Machines will make better choices than humans
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The future is no longer the distant, mythical condition it once was to us. Technology has placed it at our fingertips, it wasn't so long ago that we marveled at devices that could tell us where we were at that exact moment; it became odd when they recently began to tell us where we would soon be. The most important issue, however, might not be whether a future coproduced and made available to us by technology is good or bad, but rather how we want to relate to it as human beings. The three essays by Douglas Coupland collected in this volume address this question.
Contemporary Art Monographs
Citix60: New York
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Local artists and creatives offer an inside look at New York City from its famous sights and restaurants, to lesser-known and up-and-coming spots. Their recommendations include going for a ride on Janes Carousel, viewing the art and shopping at Tara McPherson and Sean Leonards Cotton Candy Machine, shopping for vinyl at Bleeker Street Records, stopping by Ovenly for(...)
Citix60: New York
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Local artists and creatives offer an inside look at New York City from its famous sights and restaurants, to lesser-known and up-and-coming spots. Their recommendations include going for a ride on Janes Carousel, viewing the art and shopping at Tara McPherson and Sean Leonards Cotton Candy Machine, shopping for vinyl at Bleeker Street Records, stopping by Ovenly for their salted chocolate chip cookies, and dining on oysters and absinthe at Maison Premiere. Folding map cover.
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223 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©1999.
Gyroscopic horizons / Neil M. Denari.
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A co-founder in the 1960s of the influential metabolism movement in Japan, which promoted adaptable structures, Kurokawa has recently articulated his theory of symbiosis, in which he examines the contemporary shift from machine-age values to more organic environments. This retrospective book spans his career, illuminating the continuity, originality, and humanity of his(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2005, Berlin
Kisho Kurokawa : metabolism and symbiosis
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A co-founder in the 1960s of the influential metabolism movement in Japan, which promoted adaptable structures, Kurokawa has recently articulated his theory of symbiosis, in which he examines the contemporary shift from machine-age values to more organic environments. This retrospective book spans his career, illuminating the continuity, originality, and humanity of his work. Covered here are less-familiar early designs and current undertakings of astounding proportions, like Zhengdong New District in China, a planned city of 15,000 people.
Architecture Monographs