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Over the last decade, 'parametricism' has been heralded as a new avant-garde in the industries of architecture, urban design, and industrial design, regarded by many as the next grand style in the history of architecture, heir to postmodernism and deconstruction. From buildings to cities, the built environment is increasingly addressed, designed and constructed using(...)
The politics of parametricism digital technologies in architecture
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Over the last decade, 'parametricism' has been heralded as a new avant-garde in the industries of architecture, urban design, and industrial design, regarded by many as the next grand style in the history of architecture, heir to postmodernism and deconstruction. From buildings to cities, the built environment is increasingly addressed, designed and constructed using digital software based on parametric scripting platforms which claim to be able to process complex physical and social modelling alike. As more and more digital tools are developed into an apparently infinite repertoire of socio-technical functions, critical questions concerning these cultural and technological shifts are often eclipsed by the seductive aesthetic and the alluring futuristic imaginary that parametric design tools and their architectural products and discourses represent. The Politics of Parametricism addresses these issues, offering a collection of new essays written by leading international thinkers in the fields of digital design, architecture, theory and technology. Exploring the social, political, ethical and philosophical issues at stake in the history, practice and processes of parametric architecture and urbanism, each chapter provides different vantage points to interrogate the challenges and opportunities presented by this latest mode of technological production.
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In this book, Keith Evan Green looks toward the next frontier in computing: interactive, partly intelligent, meticulously designed physical environments. Green examines how these "architectural robotic" systems will support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, interconnect, and age.
Architectural Robotics: Ecosystems of Bits, Bytes, and Biology
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In this book, Keith Evan Green looks toward the next frontier in computing: interactive, partly intelligent, meticulously designed physical environments. Green examines how these "architectural robotic" systems will support and augment us at work, school, and home, as we roam, interconnect, and age.
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How might nanotechnology—the manipulation of matter at the level of atoms and molecules—change buildings and cities in the future? The authors of Barba have imagined one possible future, shaped by a miraculous nanomaterial of the same name, which can be steered and altered in real time, changing its shape and size at will. With Barba, the authors speculate, the built(...)
Barba: Life in the Fully Adaptable Environment
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How might nanotechnology—the manipulation of matter at the level of atoms and molecules—change buildings and cities in the future? The authors of Barba have imagined one possible future, shaped by a miraculous nanomaterial of the same name, which can be steered and altered in real time, changing its shape and size at will. With Barba, the authors speculate, the built environment can be adapted almost immediately to every desire and every need. This volume, the latest in The Why Factory’s Future Cities series, envisions the dramatic potential of nanomaterial to change cities and architecture in the not-so-distant future, further explored in a series of interactive experiments and installations. Part speculative architecture, part science fiction, Barba follows an inhabitant of this flexible future world for a day, daring the reader to imagine life in a fully adaptable environment.
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Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, 'Instabilities and Potentialities' explores our post-digital culture to better understand its impact on theoretical discourse and design processes in architecture.
Instabilities and potentialities: notes on the nature of knowledge in digital architecture
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Now that information technologies are fully embedded into the design studio, 'Instabilities and Potentialities' explores our post-digital culture to better understand its impact on theoretical discourse and design processes in architecture.
Digital Architecture
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In this compendious work, two dozen university professors and lecturers share their expertise: structured into six parts, the Atlas offers an orientation to the myriad ways in which computers are used in architecture today, such as: 3D Modelling and CAD; Rendering and Visualisation; Scripting, Text & Code; Digital Manufacturing and Model Making; GIS, BIM, Simulation, and(...)
Atlas of digital architecture: terminology, concepts, methods, tools, examples, phenomena
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In this compendious work, two dozen university professors and lecturers share their expertise: structured into six parts, the Atlas offers an orientation to the myriad ways in which computers are used in architecture today, such as: 3D Modelling and CAD; Rendering and Visualisation; Scripting, Text & Code; Digital Manufacturing and Model Making; GIS, BIM, Simulation, and Big Data & Machine Learning, to name but these. The Atlas understands itself as an orientation to the vast range of of possibilities and professional profiles that digital technology puts on the table today.
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Regards croisés d'artistes et de chercheurs sur les dispositifs de simulation d'un ailleurs réel ou imaginé.Fruit d’un travail collectif et pluridisciplinaire, cet ouvrage porte un nouveau regard sur les « dispositifs de simulation du monde ». Appréhender ainsi des dispositifs aussi divers que les panoramas, les parcs d’attraction, le cinéma, ou encore les œuvres(...)
Simulations du monde : panoramas, parcs à thème et autres dispositifs immersifs
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Regards croisés d'artistes et de chercheurs sur les dispositifs de simulation d'un ailleurs réel ou imaginé.Fruit d’un travail collectif et pluridisciplinaire, cet ouvrage porte un nouveau regard sur les « dispositifs de simulation du monde ». Appréhender ainsi des dispositifs aussi divers que les panoramas, les parcs d’attraction, le cinéma, ou encore les œuvres contemporaines en réalité virtuelle, est un moyen de questionner le besoin de simuler des mondes éloignés ou imaginaires.
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Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration(...)
Smart cities
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Over the past ten years, urban planners, technology companies, and governments have promoted smart cities with a somewhat utopian vision of urban life made knowable and manageable through data collection and analysis. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. Are smart cities optimized, sustainable, digitally networked solutions to urban problems? Or are they neoliberal, corporate-controlled, undemocratic non-places? This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise introduction to smart cities, presenting key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts, along with discussions of both the drawbacks and the benefits of this approach to urban life. After reviewing current terminology and justifications employed by technology designers, journalists, and researchers, the book describes three models for smart city development?smart-from-the-start cities, retrofitted cities, and social cities?and offers examples of each. It covers technologies and methods, including sensors, public wi-fi, big data, and smartphone apps, and discusses how developers conceive of interactions among the built environment, technological and urban infrastructures, citizens, and citizen engagement. Throughout, the author?who has studied smart cities around the world?argues that smart city developers should work more closely with local communities, recognizing their preexisting relationship to urban place and realizing the limits of technological fixes. Smartness is a means to an end: improving the quality of urban life.
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Research in and on architecture is as complex as the discipline itself with its different specialist fields, and therefore the results often remain unconnected. This publication combines digital and analog research issues and demonstrates how important cross-disciplinary cooperation in architecture is today. The complexity and increasing specialization are elaborated(...)
Digital Architecture
December 2019
Research culture in architecture : cross-disciplinary collaboration
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Research in and on architecture is as complex as the discipline itself with its different specialist fields, and therefore the results often remain unconnected. This publication combines digital and analog research issues and demonstrates how important cross-disciplinary cooperation in architecture is today. The complexity and increasing specialization are elaborated on in the various chapters and then linked to the core of architecture, i.e. design. Scientists from the theoretical and practical fields present research results in the following subjects: "design methodology", "architectural space, perception, and the human body", "analog and digital timber construction", "visualization", "robotics", "architectural practice and research", and "sustainability".
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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. This 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),(...)
The architecture machine: the role of computers in architecture
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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. This 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), considers 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?
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L’intelligence artificielle a déjà investi nombre d’industries et de disciplines en leur donnant les moyens de relever des défis jusque là inédits et en rendant possibles des opérations trop complexes. Cette publication permet à chacun de comprendre les grandes étapes de l'évolution entre intelligence artificielle (IA) et Architecture, de parcourir une sélection de films(...)
Intelligence artificielle & architecture
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L’intelligence artificielle a déjà investi nombre d’industries et de disciplines en leur donnant les moyens de relever des défis jusque là inédits et en rendant possibles des opérations trop complexes. Cette publication permet à chacun de comprendre les grandes étapes de l'évolution entre intelligence artificielle (IA) et Architecture, de parcourir une sélection de films ou découvrir les recherches et animations réalisées par les laboratoires universitaires américains.
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