Architectural Materialisms
Nonhuman Creativity
Published on 25. August 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-1-4744-7454-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich internal dynamism and its multifaceted context. By transversally crossing disciplinary boundaries, new and profound insights into contemporary thinking and creating architecture emerge. Combining the dynamism of materiality and the capacities of nonhuman machines towards prototyping spatiotemporal designs and constructs leads to alternative conceptions of the human, of ethics, aesthetics and politics in this world yet-to-come.
Reviews / Votes
This collection will make a great addition to both neo-materialism of architecture and architecture of neo-materialism. * Andrej Radman, Delft University of Technology * The essays gathered in this valuable book deal with the growing influence that a rejuvenated materialism is having over the thinking of architects. The concept of self-organisation and the advent of new technologies to simulate and interact with the emergent products of spontaneous morphogenesis, have opened brand new directions for design and thought. The editor's opening essay alone, an overview of this tectonic shift, makes this book indispensable reading. * Manuel DeLanda, Princeton University *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
56 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
527 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4744-7454-2 (9781474474542)
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09/2018
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
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E-Book
09/2018
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
€28.49
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Person
Maria Voyatzaki (Vogiatzaki) is an architect and Professor of Architecture, Anglia Ruskin University, UK and a Professor of Architectural Design and Technology, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a PhD from the University of Bath, UK. She is the chief editor of peer-reviewed e-archidoct Journal. She has been involved in the European Association for Architectural Education as a Council Member and was the Coordinator of the European Network of Design and Technology Teachers.
Content
Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman CreativityMaria Voyatzaki
Causality and Meaning in the New MaterialismManuel DeLanda
Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudi and the Colliding Forces of Traditional and Innovative ConstructionMark Burry
Internalising Continuous VariationKas Oosterhuis
Paramateriality: Novel Biodigital ManifoldsMarcos Cruz
A Vital, Architectural Materialism; a House-person's Escape from the AnthropocentricPia Ednie-Brown
Performing Bitumen, Materialising DesireJulieanna Preston and Jen Archer-Martin
Machine-oriented Architecture: Oikos and EcologyLevi R. Bryant
The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the MiddleLars Spuybroek
Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and PollutionJussi Parikka
The Intelligence of Computational DesignLuciana Parisi
Grothendieck Toposes: Architectural and Plastic Imagination beyond Material Number and SpaceFernando Zalamea
Vicarious Architectonics, Strange Objects: Chance-bound: Michel Serres' Exodus from Methodical ReasonVera Buehlmann
Transmythologies Maria Voyatzaki
Notes on Contributors
Index
Causality and Meaning in the New MaterialismManuel DeLanda
Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudi and the Colliding Forces of Traditional and Innovative ConstructionMark Burry
Internalising Continuous VariationKas Oosterhuis
Paramateriality: Novel Biodigital ManifoldsMarcos Cruz
A Vital, Architectural Materialism; a House-person's Escape from the AnthropocentricPia Ednie-Brown
Performing Bitumen, Materialising DesireJulieanna Preston and Jen Archer-Martin
Machine-oriented Architecture: Oikos and EcologyLevi R. Bryant
The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the MiddleLars Spuybroek
Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and PollutionJussi Parikka
The Intelligence of Computational DesignLuciana Parisi
Grothendieck Toposes: Architectural and Plastic Imagination beyond Material Number and SpaceFernando Zalamea
Vicarious Architectonics, Strange Objects: Chance-bound: Michel Serres' Exodus from Methodical ReasonVera Buehlmann
Transmythologies Maria Voyatzaki
Notes on Contributors
Index