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''Ode to construction : Abstraction in the digital age'' explores the inersections of graphic design and art through the means of generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Supremacist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century. At once a book, website, and exhibition, ''Ode to construction'' demonstrates(...)
Ode to construction: Abstraction in the digital age
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''Ode to construction : Abstraction in the digital age'' explores the inersections of graphic design and art through the means of generative code, gesturing playfully and melancholically towards the foundational legacies of the Supremacist and Constructivist movements of the early 20th century. At once a book, website, and exhibition, ''Ode to construction'' demonstrates the fluidity of design's materializations within the conditions of the digital, moving effortlessly between screen, print, and space. By reanimating the formal strategies of modernist abstraction, graphic designer Polina Joffe probes the technical and social registers of design today.
Graphic Designers, Monographs
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Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities, and aesthetics, but this book provides an alternative genealogy. Exemplary cases show electronic literature(...)
Digital modernism: making it new in new media
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Digital Modernism examines how and why some of the most innovative works of online electronic literature adapt and allude to literary modernism. Digital literature has been celebrated as a postmodern form that grows out of contemporary technologies, subjectivities, and aesthetics, but this book provides an alternative genealogy. Exemplary cases show electronic literature looking back to modernism for inspiration and source material (in content, form, and ideology) through which to critique contemporary culture. In so doing, this literature renews and reframes, rather than rejects, a literary tradition that it also reconfigures to center around media.
Art Theory
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After two decades of experimentation with the digital, the prevalent paradigm of formal continuity is being revised and questioned by an emerging generation of architects and theorists. While the world struggles with a global housing crisis and the impact of accelerated automation on labour, digital designers’ narrow focus on mere style and continuous differentiation(...)
AD 89:2 Discrete: reappraising the digital in architecture
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After two decades of experimentation with the digital, the prevalent paradigm of formal continuity is being revised and questioned by an emerging generation of architects and theorists. While the world struggles with a global housing crisis and the impact of accelerated automation on labour, digital designers’ narrow focus on mere style and continuous differentiation seems increasingly out of touch. This issue charts an emerging body of work that is based on a computational understanding of the discrete part or building block – elements that are as scalable, accessible and versatile as digital data.
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Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, distribute, and consume. "Digital lives in the global city" examines those changes in the context of urban life, investigating how urban land, governance, and the economy are being remade by advancing communication technologies. Interspersing critical(...)
Urban Theory
November 2020
Digital lives in the global city: contesting infrastructures
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Digital technologies have changed the world, transforming how, where, and when we communicate, love, learn, produce, distribute, and consume. "Digital lives in the global city" examines those changes in the context of urban life, investigating how urban land, governance, and the economy are being remade by advancing communication technologies. Interspersing critical scholarship with provocative short works from non-tradtional authors to engage with a wide range of issues wrought by digital infrastructure, the book addresses such topics as struggles over unsafe and illegal buildings in Mumbai, the conditions of migrant work in Singapore, the question of digital debt in Toronto, and targeted policing in New York. This nuanced exploration reveals the profound connections between digital technologies and the social life of global cities.
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Modern unmodern architecture, supermodernism and contemporary traditionalism : recordings, 2004.
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1 videocassette (VHS) (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in. consultation copy, 3 videocassettes (Mini-DV) : sound, color ; 1/4 in. master, 1 audiocassette (DAT)...
Modern unmodern architecture, supermodernism and contemporary traditionalism : recordings, 2004.
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At last architects have discovered the free form shape – multiple curved surfaces, which do not exist in Cartesian geometry. What has long been usual in product design is now being adopted in architecture, these shapes are being generated by special software, and then they are subsequently built. Some young and innovative architectural firms have seized the(...)
Architecture since 1900, Europe
August 2001, Basel
digital / real – blobmeister, first built projects
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At last architects have discovered the free form shape – multiple curved surfaces, which do not exist in Cartesian geometry. What has long been usual in product design is now being adopted in architecture, these shapes are being generated by special software, and then they are subsequently built. Some young and innovative architectural firms have seized the opportunity to expand the boundaries of architectural space, showing a willingness to experiment with the new technology, and these young architects, or "blobmeister" as Wes Jones rather negatively called them, are now moving on to built examples. In this book, 11 examples from Europe, the USA and Japan are presented, showing that far from being out of touch with reality, cyber-architects do transform their dreams into actual buildings, thus concluding the endless alternatives and possibilities implicit in every design. For it is only built architecture which shows true mastery. This volume extensively documents the complex design process, from the digital conception of the designs, the creation of models, to the final photographs of the building sites and the finished structures. Thematic essays give the reader an insight into the history of the digital scene, assessing its influence on architectural culture to date and evaluating its future potential. The accompanying CD-ROM shows dynamic animations.
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August 2001, Basel
Architecture since 1900, Europe
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279 pages : illustrations (certaines en couleur) ; 17 cm
Paris : Éditions B42, [2020]
Technique & design graphique : outils, médias, savoirs / sous la direction de Vivien Philizot et Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié.
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Paris : Éditions B42, [2020]
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375 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, plans ; 25 cm
Basel : Birkhäuser, [2020], ©2020
Research culture in architecture : cross-disciplinary collaboration / Cornelie Leopold, Christopher Robeller, Ulrike Weber (eds.).
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Basel : Birkhäuser, [2020], ©2020
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London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1956.
Wright started it, Corbu gave it form, Mies added control / [presented by] Eero Saarinen (Eero Saarinen & Associates).
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London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1956.
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1 online resource (1 video file (29 minutes)) : sound, color
London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.
The story of a quest / [presented by] Richard Buckminster Fuller (Fuller & Sadao Inc.).
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London, England : Pidgeon Digital, 1980.