| Description |
1 online resource (164 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Architecture Ser |
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Routledge Research in Architecture Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- The informational view -- Information, feedback, and entropy -- The triangulation effect -- The triangulation effect in digital architecture -- Digital architecture as a seriation -- Chapter outline -- 2. Cybernetics and the architecture of performance -- The performative turn in digital architecture -- The cybernetics of performance design -- The performativity of digital architecture -- Performative tools, buildings, and users -- 3. Architectural systems |
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General systems theory -- Organization, totality, and teleology -- The isomorphism and the unity of science -- The systems view of the world -- The cybernetics of the systems view -- The systems view in architecture -- The autonomy of architecture -- Biology as a model -- 4. Genetic mechanisms -- Informational thinking, informatics, and biology -- From the genetic code to bioinformatics -- Towards a genetic architecture -- The utopic turn of genetic architecture -- The genetic view and the ontologization of information -- 5. Complex phenomena -- Complexity thinking -- Complex systems |
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The cybernetics of complexity thinking -- Architecture as a complex system -- Emergent and self-organized form -- The material computation of architecture -- End of the journey -- 6. The platonic backhand and forehand of cybernetic architecture -- Political fiction or science fiction? -- A critical tool -- Table of figures -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000422610 |
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1000422615 |
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