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On Food
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 496

On Food

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-06-19
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches, and cultural artifacts, full of human intellect and powerful technologies. Our thinking, however, is dominated by the opposite, the notion of scarcity. The limits of nature act as an inevitable necessity. In his book, David Schildberger adopts a novel approach to the subject of resources, with the help of intelligent instruments that introduce new foods, such as chocolate made from cocoa cell cultures, and even a fruit-bearing vine raised far from a vineyard. With his imagined scenarios, the author invites the reader to dare stretch their intellectual imaginations and ultimately presents nature as a contingent. Conceptual models on the subject of nature and alternative ways of producing food Recommended reading for architectural IT specialists New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series

On Food
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 480

On Food

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2022-10-15
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  • Publisher: Birkhaüser

Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural riches and cultural artifacts, full of human intellect and powerful technologies. Our thinking, however, is dominated by the opposite, the notion of scarcity. The limits of nature act as an inevitable necessity. In his book, David Schildberger adopts a novel approach to the subject of resources, with the help of intelligent instruments that introduce new foods, such as chocolate made from cocoa cell cultures, and even a fruit-bearing vine raised far from a vineyard. With his imagined scenarios, the author invites the reader to dare stretch their intellectual imaginations and ultimately presents nature as a contingent. Conceptual models on the subject of nature and alternative ways of producing food Recommended reading for architectural IT specialists New volume in the Applied Virtuality Book Series

Architecture and Naturing Affairs
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 352

Architecture and Naturing Affairs

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-10-26
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

In this anthology with contributions about architecture, media, and infrastructure technology, the authors investigate in what multifaceted way architecture and information is in tune with contemporary technology, and in what way we live with them. The book is divided into following parts: BREEDING (medialising matter), BREATHING (transcending language), and INHABITING (making things inhabitable). The compilation of various text contributions creates a lexicon of ‘naturing affairs’ and is written for readers who look for an inspiring overview of our medialised environments.

City Sense
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

City Sense

Projects presented at the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest, by the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, IAAC. Edited by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, this book presents a selection of projects on Smart Cities, Eco neighborhoods, Self-sufficient buildings, Intelligent homes and other proposals that analyzes the phenomena of sensor-driven cities and inteligent behavioural systems that were presented in the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest.

SHEAVES
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 544

SHEAVES

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-09
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

“SHEAVES” will not describe anything. It will not judge. It will inspire. There are no continuous texts, but a wide range of topics. How to read this book? Take the notions seriously. Search the Internet and they will lose their generalness. They will begin to speak to you vividly. Bundle these riches with the riches of other notions and they will activate each other. Also take the pictures seriously. Photograph or scan them. Use them as an index, while searching the Internet. Again, you will find rich stories. Bundle those riches, concentrate them into new identities that are interesting to you. Let yourself be inspired by the intellectual wealth of our world. You can expand it. It is an exciting adventure, demanding and optimistic.

Play Among Books
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 528

Play Among Books

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-12-06
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This question opens up an important research perspective. In this book, Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the fields of architecture and information through two interwoven narrative strands in an “infinite flow” of real books. Focusing on the intersection of information technology and architectural formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection on digital architecture and computer science.

Symbolizing Existence
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Symbolizing Existence

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-05-24
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

Symbolizing Existence deals with the current rapidly happening “deterritorialization” of everything which was once regarded stable and binding. What we today regard as statistically encoded information is capable to explicate and index the entire realm of what can be expressed and represented through a cascade of geometrical, functional, or finally logified schemes. We are currently experiencing a rapid loss of “grounding” of that which we once considered binding in our cultural and intellectual history. How can we obtain an articulate, cultivate way of thinking about “instances” that does not fall back into a schematic model Platonism (thereby falling behind Plato), and that does not remain enmeshed in an Aristotelian realization dynamics with a naturalism organized by original genus, kinds, and specific marks of distinction? The central phenomenon considered was the technological process of doping material: At the quantum level, a particle or its representation, the point, is no longer “that which has no parts” (Euclid).

EnCoding Architecture2013
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 279

EnCoding Architecture2013

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Lulu.com

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Rethinking Wood
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Rethinking Wood

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2019-04-18
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

Advances in the materials and the digitalization of architecture bring about new methods in design and construction. Whereas traditional timber construction consists of pre-cut and pre-assembled timber sections, modern timber buildings today consist of elaborate wood-based materials. Owing to their flexibility and good properties in terms of building physics and ecology, these wood-based materials are ideal for computer-aided building component production. Fifteen case examples from research, teaching, and practical applications provide inspiring insights into the potential of formable wood-based materials and digital design: Woven Wood, Wood Foam, Living Wood and Organic Joints, Timber Joints for Robotic Building Processes, Efficiencies of Wood, Designing with Tree Form.

The Biological Bulletin
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 592

The Biological Bulletin

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1979
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Vols. 17, 21-105 contain Annual reports of the Marine Biological Laboratory for 1907/08-1952.