Digital Culture in Architecture: An Rntroductlon For The Professlons

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Antoine Picon

Digital Culture in
Architecture
An rntroductLon
for the

DesL~n

professLons

Birkhuser
Basel

Introduction

People, Computers and Architecture: A Historical Overview

The emergence of the scci.etu of mf'ornet con


The rlse of computer eplstemoLogy
cytJernetlcs i.n ar chi t.et tur e and pl anrung: patterns, systems and networks
The formaLlst turn ln postmodernlsm and crltlcaL theory
olgltaL cuLture, space and soclatJlLlty
ar cht tectur e as t nt erf ace
Experiments in Form and Performance

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The seductlon of lnnovatlve geometrles 60


olagrammlng compLexlty 73
The surface as archltecture 84
From anlmatlon to aLgorlthmlcs 94
mtr i cate er nuu net i st eLegance 7 100
olgltaL age subjectrvt tu, performance and meanlng 10 4
From Tectonic to Ornament: Towards a Different Materiality

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contemporary technoLogy as Landscape


r he UlSlS of scaLe and tect oruc
From memory to OtJLlVlon
Aelnventlng ornament
A dt ff er ent matenaLlty
MatenaLs tJy deslgn
oeslgn strategles and professlonaL perspectlves
WlLL r obot i zat i on take connend?

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The City in the Digital Sprawl

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urban features Ln the dlgltaL age

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A Clty of i ndi vi duat.s


An augmented urtJan reaLlty
cvents , si eut.att ons and scenar i os
Towards a spLlntered Clty7
Conclusion

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Material Continuity and the Design Practice


Index
On the Author

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