
Digital Culture in Architecture
An Introduction for the Design Professions
Antoine Picon(Author)
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 9. April 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-3-0346-0259-4 (ISBN)
Description
Today's explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. From the preliminary sketch all the way to the production of individual building components, digital tools offer new possibilities that were still inconceivable just a few years ago. This volume provides a profound introduction to the important role of digital technologies in design and execution. In four chapters, the author systematically examines the influence of digital culture on architecture but also on the urban landscape as well as product design. The relationship of digital architecture to the city is also an important focus.
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Edition
1st Edition.
Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
Klappenbroschur
Illustrations
43 farbige Abbildungen, 105 s/w Abbildungen
105 b/w and 43 col. ill.
Dimensions
Height: 24 cm
Width: 16.5 cm
Weight
632 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0346-0259-4 (9783034602594)
Schweitzer Classification
Person
Antoine Picon ist Ingenieur der Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, Lehrer für Architekturgeschichte und -theorie an der Harvard Graduate School of Design und eine der international bekannten Figuren auf dem Gebiet der digitalen Technologien.
Content
Contents People, Computers and Architecture: A Historical Overview Experiments in Form and Performance From Tectonic to Ornament: Towards a Different Materiality The city in the Digital Sprawl Material Continuity and the Design Practice