Architectural Materialisms : : Nonhuman Creativity /

Architectural Materialisms : : Nonhuman Creativity / / Maria Voyatzaki.

Maps materiality’s importance in the emergent posthuman future of architectureExamines how contemporary materialist philosophies affect the theory and practice of architecture Addresses the consequences of the strong impact of information technology and computation on the conception on matter and on...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
VerfasserIn:
Voyatzaki, Maria,
MitwirkendeR:
Brown, Pia,
Bryant, Levi,
Burry, Mark,
Bühlmann, Vera,
Cruz, Marcos,
DeLanda, Manuel,
Martin, Jen,
Oosterhuis, Kas,
Parikka, Jussi,
Parisi, Luciana,
Preston, Julieanna,
Spuybroek, Lars,
Voyatzaki, Maria,
Zalamea, Fernando,
Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2018
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:New Materialisms : NEMA
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 56 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity
  • Part I
  • 1. Causality and Meaning in the New Materialism
  • 2. Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudí and the Colliding Forces of Traditional and Innovative Construction
  • 3. Internalising Continuous Variation
  • 4. Paramateriality: Novel Biodigital Manifolds
  • 5. A Vital, Architectural Materialism: A House-person’s Escape from the Anthropocentric
  • 6. Performing Bitumen, Materialising Desiré
  • Part II
  • 7. Machine-oriented Architecture: Oikos and Ecology
  • 8. The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the Middle
  • Part III
  • 9. Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and Pollution
  • 10. The Intelligence of Computational Design
  • 11. Grothendieck Topoi: Architectural and Plastic Imagination beyond Material Number and Space
  • 12. Vicarious Architectonics, Strange Objects, Chance-bound: Michel Serres’s Exodus from Methodical Reason
  • 13. Transmythologies
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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