| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 328 pages) : illustrations |
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New materialisms |
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New materialisms (Edinburgh, Scotland)
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| Contents |
Intro; Acknowledgements; Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity; PART I; Chapter 1 Causality and Meaning in the New Materialism; Chapter 2 Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudà 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 |
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Chapter 8 The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the MiddlePART 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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 26, 2018) |
| Subject |
Architecture -- Philosophy
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Architecture -- Technological innovations
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Materialism.
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materialism (philosophical movement)
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architectural theory.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Architecture -- Philosophy
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Architecture -- Technological innovations
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Materialism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Voyatzaki, Maria
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| ISBN |
9781474420587 |
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1474420583 |
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1474453902 |
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9781474453905 |
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1474420591 |
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9781474420594 |
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