Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity

ISBN-13: 9781474420570 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 336 str.

Maria Voyatzaki

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity, Maria Voyatzaki; 1. Causality and Meaning in the New Materialism, Manuel DeLanda; 2. Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudí and the Colliding Forces of Traditional and Innovative Construction, Mark Burry; 3. Internalising Continuous Variation, Kas Oosterhuis; 4. Paramateriality: Novel Biodigital Manifolds, Marcos Cruz; 5. A Vital, Architectural Materialism; a House-person’s Escape from the Anthropocentric, Pia Ednie-Brown; 6. Performing Bitumen, Materialising Desiré, Julieanna Preston and Jen Archer-Martin; 7. Machine-oriented Architecture: Oikos and Ecology, Levi R. Bryant; 8. The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the Middle, Lars Spuybroek ; 9. Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and Pollution, Jussi Parikka; 10. The Intelligence of Computational Design, Luciana Parisi; 11. Grothendieck Toposes: Architectural and Plastic Imagination beyond Material Number and Space, Fernando Zalamea; 12. Vicarious Architectonics, Strange Objects: Chance-bound: Michel Serres’ Exodus from Methodical Reason, Vera Bühlmann; 13. Transmythologies , Maria Voyatzaki; Notes on Contributors; Index.