Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design
Published on 2. November 2023
Book
Hardback
380 pages
978-1-954081-34-5 (ISBN)
Description
During the three decades following the Second World War, and before the advent of personal computers, government investment in university research in North America and the UK funded multidisciplinary projects to investigate the use of computers for manufacturing and design. Designing the Computational Image, Imagining Computational Design explores this period of remarkable inventiveness, and traces its repercussions on architecture and other creative fields through a selection of computational designers working today.
Situating contemporary expressions of design in relation to broader historical, disciplinary, and technical frames, the book showcases the confluence, during the second half of the 20th century, of publicly funded technical innovations in software, geometry, and hardware with a cultural imaginary of design endowing computer-generated images with both geometric plasticity and a new type of agency as operative design artifacts.
Situating contemporary expressions of design in relation to broader historical, disciplinary, and technical frames, the book showcases the confluence, during the second half of the 20th century, of publicly funded technical innovations in software, geometry, and hardware with a cultural imaginary of design endowing computer-generated images with both geometric plasticity and a new type of agency as operative design artifacts.
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Language
English
Place of publication
San Rafael
United States
Illustrations
200 Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 182 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
Weight
1200 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-954081-34-5 (9781954081345)
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Persons
Daniel Cardoso Llach, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of Builders of the Vision: Software and the Imagination of Design (Routledge, 2015) and the co-editor of Other Computations (Uniandes, 2020).
Theodora Vardouli, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University. She is co-editor of Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge, 2020).
Theodora Vardouli, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University. She is co-editor of Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground (Routledge, 2020).
Content
Materialities
16 Images to Think With
Daniel Cardoso Llach
24 On the Surface
Theodora Vardouli
Archive
36 Servomechanisms Laboratory, MIT, United States
48 Cambridge CAD Group, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
50 Sperry Gyroscope Co. of Canada Ltd., Canada
Works
54 Ben Snell
56 BairBalliet (Kristy Balliet and Kelly Bair)
58 Joseph Choma
61 Vernelle Noel
64 Jonah Marrs
66 Nicolas Reeves
67 Jer Thorp and Diane Thorp
Visualities
102 The Computer-Aided Design Project, MIT, United States
114 Cambridge CAD Group, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
119 University of Utah, United States
120 Bell Labs, United States
126 McGill University, Canada
130 Computer Graphics Group, University of Toronto, Canada
142 Alan Warburton
143 Dana Cupkova
144 Andrew Heumann
146 Zach Lieberman
150 Carl Lostritto
151 Joseph Choma
152 Golan Levin
154 BairBalliet (Kristy Balliet and Kelly Bair)
156 Benedikt Gross
157 Kyuha Shim
158 Ben Snell
160 Shaheer Zazai
161 Jonah Marrs
Agencies
240 The Computer-Aided Design Project, MIT, United States
250 The Architecture Machine, MIT, United States
254 Institute for Physical Planning, CMU, United States
260 Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
261 Centre for Configurational Studies, The Open University, United Kingdom
262 University of Waterloo, Canada
266 Civil Engineering Systems Laboratory, MIT, United States
268 University of Toronto, Canada
270 Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and
Spatial Analysis, United States
272 Universite de Montreal, Canada
273 Universite Laval, Canada
274 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada journal, Canada
280 Madeline Gannon
281 George Stiny
282 Felecia Davis and Delia Dumitrescu
283 Dana Cupkova and Daragh Byrne
284 Juerg Lehni
286 Golan Levin
287 Elizabeth Vander Zaag
289 Daniel Iregui
292 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
293 Jean Dubois
294 Joanna Berzowska
296 Philip Beesley
Materialities
Essays
70 Binary Image, Visual Latency
Andres Burbano
74 The Manufacturing Hand: Tactility and Abstraction in Robotics
Emek Erdolu
78 Olympic Calculations
Sean Keller
82 Processing Models, Modeling Processes for the HfG Ulm ca. 1952
Anna-Maria Meister
Conversations
88 Unsmooth Images: A Conversation about the Materialities of Computational Design
Kristy Balliet, Sean Keller, Nathalie Bredella, and Jonah Marrs moderated by Molly Wright Steenson
374 Biographies
380 Acknowledgments
382 Exhibition credits
383 Photo credits
Visualities
164 Materialities of Shiny Surfacing with Chrome
Akshita Sivakumar
170 "Digit Goes to Hawaii" (1976) and "Baby Eyes" (1984)
Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda
176 Depth and Historical Vision in Computer Simulation
Jacob Gaboury
180 Topology, Crystals, and A Multitude of Futures
David Theodore
184 "Metamorphosis" (1976) by Lillian Schwartz
Olga Touloumi
190 Interfaces of the Self: A Conversation about the Structures and Histories of ComputationalImages
Joseph Choma, Carl Lostritto, Theodora Vardouli, and Jacob Gaboury moderated byOlga Touloumi
202 Imagination Machines: A Conversation with George Stiny
Moderated by Daniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli
218 Computer Art and Information Aesthetics: A Conversation with Leslie Mezei and Frieder Nake
Moderated by Theodora Vardouli
300 Data for Decision (film, 1967)
Moa Carlsson
304 Seeing with a Machine: Notes on Early SpatialComputing
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
308 Alternative Land-Use Map of a Simulated City
Matthew Allen 312 @home Mario Carpo
318 Digital Pantheisms: A Conversation About Computational Agencies across Art and Design
Madeline Gannon, Andrew Heumann, Dana Cupkova, and Golan Levin moderated by FeleciaDavis
332 Feminist Embodiments of Interactivity: A Conversation with Elizabeth Vander Zaag
Moderated by Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda
350 Machine Misbehavior and Ethical Interfaces: A Conversation with Rachel Strickland and PaulPangaro
Moderated by Daniel Cardoso Llach
16 Images to Think With
Daniel Cardoso Llach
24 On the Surface
Theodora Vardouli
Archive
36 Servomechanisms Laboratory, MIT, United States
48 Cambridge CAD Group, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
50 Sperry Gyroscope Co. of Canada Ltd., Canada
Works
54 Ben Snell
56 BairBalliet (Kristy Balliet and Kelly Bair)
58 Joseph Choma
61 Vernelle Noel
64 Jonah Marrs
66 Nicolas Reeves
67 Jer Thorp and Diane Thorp
Visualities
102 The Computer-Aided Design Project, MIT, United States
114 Cambridge CAD Group, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
119 University of Utah, United States
120 Bell Labs, United States
126 McGill University, Canada
130 Computer Graphics Group, University of Toronto, Canada
142 Alan Warburton
143 Dana Cupkova
144 Andrew Heumann
146 Zach Lieberman
150 Carl Lostritto
151 Joseph Choma
152 Golan Levin
154 BairBalliet (Kristy Balliet and Kelly Bair)
156 Benedikt Gross
157 Kyuha Shim
158 Ben Snell
160 Shaheer Zazai
161 Jonah Marrs
Agencies
240 The Computer-Aided Design Project, MIT, United States
250 The Architecture Machine, MIT, United States
254 Institute for Physical Planning, CMU, United States
260 Centre for Land Use and Built Form Studies, Cambridge University, United Kingdom
261 Centre for Configurational Studies, The Open University, United Kingdom
262 University of Waterloo, Canada
266 Civil Engineering Systems Laboratory, MIT, United States
268 University of Toronto, Canada
270 Harvard Laboratory for Computer Graphics and
Spatial Analysis, United States
272 Universite de Montreal, Canada
273 Universite Laval, Canada
274 Royal Architectural Institute of Canada journal, Canada
280 Madeline Gannon
281 George Stiny
282 Felecia Davis and Delia Dumitrescu
283 Dana Cupkova and Daragh Byrne
284 Juerg Lehni
286 Golan Levin
287 Elizabeth Vander Zaag
289 Daniel Iregui
292 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
293 Jean Dubois
294 Joanna Berzowska
296 Philip Beesley
Materialities
Essays
70 Binary Image, Visual Latency
Andres Burbano
74 The Manufacturing Hand: Tactility and Abstraction in Robotics
Emek Erdolu
78 Olympic Calculations
Sean Keller
82 Processing Models, Modeling Processes for the HfG Ulm ca. 1952
Anna-Maria Meister
Conversations
88 Unsmooth Images: A Conversation about the Materialities of Computational Design
Kristy Balliet, Sean Keller, Nathalie Bredella, and Jonah Marrs moderated by Molly Wright Steenson
374 Biographies
380 Acknowledgments
382 Exhibition credits
383 Photo credits
Visualities
164 Materialities of Shiny Surfacing with Chrome
Akshita Sivakumar
170 "Digit Goes to Hawaii" (1976) and "Baby Eyes" (1984)
Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda
176 Depth and Historical Vision in Computer Simulation
Jacob Gaboury
180 Topology, Crystals, and A Multitude of Futures
David Theodore
184 "Metamorphosis" (1976) by Lillian Schwartz
Olga Touloumi
190 Interfaces of the Self: A Conversation about the Structures and Histories of ComputationalImages
Joseph Choma, Carl Lostritto, Theodora Vardouli, and Jacob Gaboury moderated byOlga Touloumi
202 Imagination Machines: A Conversation with George Stiny
Moderated by Daniel Cardoso Llach and Theodora Vardouli
218 Computer Art and Information Aesthetics: A Conversation with Leslie Mezei and Frieder Nake
Moderated by Theodora Vardouli
300 Data for Decision (film, 1967)
Moa Carlsson
304 Seeing with a Machine: Notes on Early SpatialComputing
Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal
308 Alternative Land-Use Map of a Simulated City
Matthew Allen 312 @home Mario Carpo
318 Digital Pantheisms: A Conversation About Computational Agencies across Art and Design
Madeline Gannon, Andrew Heumann, Dana Cupkova, and Golan Levin moderated by FeleciaDavis
332 Feminist Embodiments of Interactivity: A Conversation with Elizabeth Vander Zaag
Moderated by Gabriela Aceves Sepulveda
350 Machine Misbehavior and Ethical Interfaces: A Conversation with Rachel Strickland and PaulPangaro
Moderated by Daniel Cardoso Llach