This well-illustrated book unites essayists and emerging architectural practices to examine how digital tools are increasingly being used in architectural design, not only to show form, structure and geometries but also to visualize and simulate energies and material qualities such as air, gas, sound, scent and electricity.Softspace takes stock of current advancements in design and research, while drawing on historical and ideological trajectories rooted in the past fifty years. The varied contributors examine the capabilities of such 'energy matters' to act as catalysts for design innovation today.This well-presented and impressively authored title will provoke architects of all levels to consider the potential for creative and innovative design through the use of digital design tools.
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This well-illustrated and impressively authored title provokes architects of all levels to consider further the potential for creative and innovative design through technological advances.
Preface: The Stuff Between, In & Around Sean Lally & Jessica Youn Introduction: Energies, Matter & the Gradients of Space Sean Lally Putting out the Fire with Gasoline: Parables of Entropy and Homeostasis from the Second Machine Age to the Information Age Christopher Hight Potential Energies Sean Lally The Phenomena of the Non-Visual Michelle Addington Nested Capacities, Gradient Thresholds & Modulated Environments: Towards Differentiated and Multi-Performative Architectures Michael Hensel & Achim Menges Dissipative Procedures: Optimization through ‘Phenomenonization’ Chandler Ahrens, Eran Neuman & Aaron Sprecher Cybernetic Anything... Marcelyn Gow The Archoid Chimera: Electric Space as Social Machine Tobi Schneidler Eco_logics Helene Furján Matter and Sense Jason Payne & Heather Roberge Postscript: This Pipe is Not a Pipe Dream Lars Lerup Postscript: I, the Scent Cube and CSI; or, the Controlled Soft Interior Bart Lootsma Notes, Credits, Biographies
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780415402026
Publisert
2006-12-20
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
725 gr
Høyde
259 mm
Bredde
203 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
224