Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence

ISBN-13: 9781032272689 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 336 str.

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa

Opis

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architecture to understand and unleash potential means to open up creativity in the field.

Historically, architecture has led spatial representation. Today, computation has established new representational paradigms that can be compared to spatial representations, such as the revolution of perspective in the Renaissance. Architects now use software, robotics, and fabrication tools with very little understanding and participation in how these tools influence, revolutionize, and determine both architecture and its construction today. Why does the discipline of architecture not have a higher degree of authorship in the conception and development of computational technologies that define spatial representation? This book critically explores the relationship between history, theory and cultural criticism. Lorenzo-Eiroa positions new understandings through parallel historical sections and theories of many revolutionary representational architecture canons displaced by conventional spatial projection. He identifies the architects, artists, mathematicians, and philosophers that were able to revolutionise their disciplines through the development of new technologies, new systems of representation, and new lenses to understand reality. This book frames the discussion by addressing new means to understand and expand architecture authorship in relation to survey, information, representation, higher dimensional space, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence - in the pursuit of activating an architecture of information.

This will be important reading for upper-level students and researchers of architecture and architectural theory, especially those with a keen interest in computational design and robotic fabrication.

Recenzje

"This theoretical and experimental approach proposes in the book the definition of a new architectural signifier, a "digital signifier". Summoning Derrida's economy of language, the author intends to reform the tools of architecture to develop "an architecture of architectures". In addition to the historical panorama, the work contributes to modeling the logical laws which, from Aristotle to Leibniz's Characteristica Universalis, determine the ontological conditions of the relationship between what appears and what one can know and what one can express. From then on, we understand the continual critical rapprochement between data and signifiers, and between information and representation.''

Alexis A. Meier, Phd, Prof. INSA Strasbourg

''This book approaches the culture, history, and future of computational architecture unlike no proceeding formulation of the theoretical basis of an architecture of information. Situating a range of recent technological disruptions, including the accelerating availability of Big Data, robotics and automation, and the increasing presence of artificial intelligence applications within the discipline of architecture, within a history of the discipline of architecture. In addition, this book articulates the disciplinary relation of architecture with respect to linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and art. Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa’s expertise and insights in this rapidly moving technological arena brings depth and significance to an understanding of computational technologies and their spatial representation.''

Tom Verebes, PhD, Professor, School of Architecture and Design, New York Institute of Technology
Director, OCEAN CN

O autorze

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa is the Founder of e-Architects.net, Director of the AI Lab, and Associate Professor at the New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design. He co-edited Architecture In:Formation, Routledge, 2013.