Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground

ISBN-13: 9781032085685 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 244 str.

Theodora Vardouli; Olga Touloumi

Opis

Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works that unearth sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20^th century.

Recenzje

"This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It’s a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice." -  Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Toward a Polyglot Space  PART I PROGRAM  2. Computing Environmental Design  3. The Work of Design and the Design of Work: Olivetti and the Political Economy of its Early Computers  4. "Bewildered, the Form-Maker Stands Alone": Computer Architecture and the Quest for Design Rationality  PART II INPUT/OUTPUT  5. Augmentation and Interface: Tracing a Spectrum  6. The First Failure of Man-Computer Symbiosis: The Hospital Computer Project, 1960-1968  7. The Unclean Human-Machine Interface  PART III STORAGE  8. Architectures of Information: A Comparison of Wiener’s and Shannon’s Theories of Information  9. Bureaucracy’s Playthings  PART IV COMPUTATION  10. Imagining Architecture as a Form of Concrete Poetry  11. The Axiomatic Aesthetic

O autorze

Theodora Vardouli is Assistant Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada.

Olga Touloumi is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Bard College, USA.