Abstract Space
Beneath the Media Surface
1st Edition
Published on 5. March 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
198 pages
978-0-415-41509-5 (ISBN)
Description
This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions of what the architectural image means today.
Within the book's visually imaginative design framework, Abstract Space engages discourses from architecture, visual and cultural studies to computer science and communications technology to present an in-depth multi-media case study. Tracing a provisional history of the topic, the book also lends a provocative and multivalent understanding to the complex relations affecting the architectural image today.
Within the book's visually imaginative design framework, Abstract Space engages discourses from architecture, visual and cultural studies to computer science and communications technology to present an in-depth multi-media case study. Tracing a provisional history of the topic, the book also lends a provocative and multivalent understanding to the complex relations affecting the architectural image today.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
75 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder, 16 Farbfotos bzw. farbige Rasterbilder
16 Halftones, color; 75 Halftones, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 210 mm
Weight
362 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-415-41509-5 (9780415415095)
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03/2007
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Taylor & Francis
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E-Book
02/2007
Taylor & Francis
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02/2007
Taylor & Francis
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Person
Therese Tierney is a doctoral scholar at the University of California Berkeley where she is a Malcolm Reynolds Fellow. She has worked as a practicing architect in San Francisco and has held teaching positions at the University of California Berkeley and California College of the Arts.
Content
Introduction 1. Architecture and Abstraction: Topologies of New Media 2. Architectural Modes of Seeing: Visual Theory and Cognition 3. Formulating Abstraction: Conceptual Art and the Architectural Object 4. Mapping Absence: Architectural Contingencies 5. Generative Systems: Evolving Computational Strategies 6. Formal Matters: The Virtual as a Generative Concept 7. The Status of the Architectural Image