
Reality Bytes
Selected Essays 1995-2015
Bart Lootsma(Author)
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 24. October 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
304 pages
978-3-99043-366-9 (ISBN)
Description
Reality Bytes is a collection of essays by Bart Lootsma, written in the years from 1998 to 2009. "Byte" is a unit of digital information used in information technology and most commonly consists of eight bits. Reality Bytes is also the title of an essay by Bart Lootsma, in which he investigates the relationship between society and architects and town planners. Bart Lootsma, Professor of Architecture as well as architectural historian, critic and curator, is one of the most multi-faceted figures amongst contemporary architectural theorists. He has produced numerous publications, including "Superdutch", an appraisal of contemporary architecture in the Netherlands published in 2000. In Reality Bytes he has now for the first time compiled hitherto (mostly) unpublished texts on architectural theory, on Second Modernism, on populism and architecture, on landscape architecture and on the changing role of architects in society.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Illustrations
20 figs.
Dimensions
Height: 21.5 cm
Width: 14.5 cm
Weight
461 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-99043-366-9 (9783990433669)
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E-Book
11/2016
1st Edition
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Person
Bart Lootsma, Leopold Franzens Universität Innsbruck, Österreich.
Content
Preface.- Situated Knowledge.- More Maastricht Bean Counting!.- Reality Bytes.- Architecture in the Second Modernity.- Towards a Theory of Specificity.- The nth Typology.- Individualization.- The Paradoxes of contemporary Populism.- The New Landscape.- Public Space in Transition.- Of other Spaces.- The Diagram Debate, or the Schizoid Architect.- Total Immersion.- Bodysnatchers.- Black Holes in Megalopolis.- Formal-Formless.- Forgotten Worlds, Possible Worlds.- The Style of Choice.