Architectural Materialisms
Nonhuman Creativity
1st Edition
Published on 17. September 2018
336 pages
978-1-4744-2058-7 (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.
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity
- PART I
- Chapter 1 Causality and Meaning in the New Materialism
- Chapter 2 Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudí and the Colliding Forces of Traditional and Innovative Construction
- Chapter 3 Internalising Continuous Variation
- Chapter 4 Paramateriality: Novel Biodigital Manifolds
- Chapter 5 A Vital, Architectural Materialism: A House-person's Escape from the Anthropocentric
- Chapter 6 Performing Bitumen, Materialising Desiré
- PART II
- Chapter 7 Machine-oriented Architecture: Oikos and Ecology
- Chapter 8 The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the Middle
- PART III
- Chapter 9 Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and Pollution
- Chapter 10 The Intelligence of Computational Design
- Chapter 11 Grothendieck Topoi: Architectural and Plastic Imagination beyond Material Number and Space
- Chapter 12 Vicarious Architectonics, Strange Objects, Chance-bound: Michel Serres's Exodus from Methodical Reason
- Chapter 13 Transmythologies
- Notes on Contributors
- Index
