Instabilities and Potentialities

Instabilities and Potentialities

Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture

Edited by Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher with Michael Wen-Sen Su

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher - On the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture

Forewords

Georges Teyssot - Gilbert Simondon's Key Points

Part 1. Images

Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher - Images: Effect and Affect in the Digital Representation of Architecture

Mark Linder - Episodes in the Emergence of Imaging Practices

David Freeland and Brennan Buck - Objective Perspective

Dana Cupkova - interview

Viola Ago - The Line, the Drawings and the Model

John Carpenter - Multispectral 4D imaging of heart formation and c-looping in Tg embryos

Nicholas de Monchaux - The Complexity of Complexity, or, Life Attracts Life

Part 2. Objects

Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher - Objects: Topological evolution of the architectural entity

Martin Bressani - In Medias Res: Atmospheres and Hauntings

Volkan Alkanoglu - In Pursuit of Novel Form: Super Light

Thom Mayne - interview

Alvin Huang - Objects: Technology, Technique, Techne: Creation vs Contingency in Computational Design

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa - Post-Digital as Design Authorship In Informed Material Processes

Alessandra Ponte - Mapping in the Age of Electronic Shadows

Part 3. Disciplines

Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher - Disciplines: Transdisciplinarity and Potentialities

Laurent Stalder - Machine/ Architecture

Satoru Sugihara - Design Outside of the Frame: A Role of Architects in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Greg Lynn - interview

Tom Shaked and Uri Dubin - Exercises in Style: A Transdisciplinary Discussion

Jose Sanchez - From an Autopoietic to a Symbiopoietic Architecture Discipline

Theodora Vardouli - Dissimilar at First Sight : Structural Abstraction and the Promises of Isomorphism in 1960s Architectural Theory

Postscript

Antoine Picon - Digital fabrication, Between disruption and nostalgia

Biographies

Index

Acknowledgements