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NATØ: Narrative Architecture in Postmodern London
Chronicling the last radical architectural group of the twentieth century – NATØ (Narrative Architecture Today) – who emerged from the Architectural Association at the start of the 1980s, this book explores the group’s work which echoed a wider artistic and literary culture that drew on the specific political, social and physical condition of 1980s London. It traces NATؒs identification with a particular stream of post-punk, postmodern expression: a celebration of the abject, an aesthetic of entropy, and a do-it-yourself provisionality. NATØ has most often been documented in reference to Nigel Coates (the instigator of NATØ), which has led to a one-sided, one-dimensional record of NATؒs place in architectural history. This book sets out a more detailed, contextual history of NATØ, told through photographs, drawings, and ephemera, restoring a truer polyvocal narrative of the group’s ethos and development.
The Death of Drawing
The Death of Drawing explores the causes and effects of the epochal shift from drawing to computation as the chief design and communication medium in architecture. Drawing both framed the thinking of architects and organized the design and construction process to place architects at its center. Its displacement by building information modeling (BIM) and computational design recasts both the terms in which architects think and their role in building production. Author David Ross Scheer explains that, whereas drawing allowed architects to represent ideas in form, BIM and computational design simulate experience, making building behavior or performance the primary object of design. The author e...
Architekturwissenschaft. Vom Suffix zur Agenda
Was ist Architekturwissenschaft? Der vorliegende Band versammelt erstmals unter dem Titel Architekturwissenschaft eine Reihe unterschiedlicher Aspekte des Zusammenkommens von Wissenschaft und Architektur und zeigt auf, welche Rolle das eine für das andere spielt, gespielt hat, oder in Zukunft als institutionalisierte Architekturwissenschaft spielen wird. What is `Architekturwissenschaft´? This publication presents various aspects concerning the connection of `Wissenschaft´ – including both science and humanties – and Architecture demonstrating the significance of the former to the latter and vice versa. In reflecting their interrelation, the perspectives of the different contributions are directed either to the past, to the present situation or to the future of an insitutionalised `Architecturewissenschaft´.
Digitale Stadtplanung
Was bedeutet Digitalisierung in der Planung, wie verändern sich dadurch das Planen und der Blick auf Städte? In einer vergleichenden ethnografischen Studie untersucht Martin Schinagl aus einer raumsoziologischen Perspektive die Arbeitswelten von Stadtplaner*innen im Umgang mit digitalen Technologien. Dabei zeigt er, wie die Nutzung dieser Werkzeuge mit dem Tun der Planer*innen, der Organisation von Planungsprozessen und der Weise, wie Raumwissen konstruiert wird, zusammenhängen. Digitalisierung versteht sich so als technisiertes räumliches Anordnen sozialer Beziehungen. Sie materialisiert sich in den Orten des Planens und darin, wie Planer*innen Städte und Räume sehen, verstehen und gestalten.
Digital Modernism Heritage Lexicon
The book investigates the theme of Modernism (1920-1960 and its epigones) as an integral part of tangible and intangible cultural heritage which contains the result of a whole range of disciplines whose aim is to identify, document and preserve the memory of the past and the value of the future. Including several chapters, it contains research results relating to cultural heritage, more specifically Modernism, and current digital technologies. This makes it possible to record and evaluate the changes that both undergo: the first one, from a material point of view, the second one from the research point of view, which integrates the traditional approach with an innovative one. The purpose of ...
An Epistemology of the Concrete
An Epistemology of the Concrete brings together case studies and theoretical reflections on the history and epistemology of the life sciences by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, one of the world’s foremost philosophers of science. In these essays, he examines the history of experiments, concepts, model organisms, instruments, and the gamut of epistemological, institutional, political, and social factors that determine the actual course of the development of knowledge. Building on ideas from his influential book Toward a History of Epistemic Things, Rheinberger first considers ways of historicizing scientific knowledge, and then explores different configurations of genetic experimentation in the fir...
Ornament Today
The debates on ornament have reignited. As the digital age dawns, ornament — the very thing that modernity attempted to abolish at the beginning of the machine age — is making a comeback in architecture, design, and art. Opinions diverge when it comes to ornament, but less in the sense of taste than that the central questions of design crystallise on it. - But how does it now differ from machine ornament and classical ornament? Where do the affinities and continuities exist? Ornament Today raises the question of the change in the structure and status of ornament in the digital age.
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