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  • The Second Digital Turn

    Design Beyond Intelligence

    by Mario Carpo ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    The first digital turn in architecture changed our ways of making; the second changes our ways of thinking.Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today's digitally ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Rewriting Alberti

    by Peter Eisenman, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mario Carpo, Daniel Sherer ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    A fresh, groundbreaking analysis of renowned Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s five built works, suggesting a new relationship of form to meaning.Much has been written about Renaissance architect Leon Battista Alberti’s mantra of part-to-whole as one of the continuing conditions of architecture. While this underlying thesis has often been repeated in the annals of architectural history ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • Beyond Digital

    Design and Automation at the End of Modernity

    by Mario Carpo ...
    Recasting computational design: a new modern agenda for a post-industrial, post-pandemic world.Mass production was the core technical logic of industrial modernity: for the last hundred years, architects and designers have tried to industrialize construction and standardize building materials and processes in the pursuit of economies of scale. But this epochal march of modernity is now over. In ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Perspective, Projections and Design

    Technologies of Architectural Representation

    Edited by Mario Carpo, Frédérique Lemerle ...
    The essays selected for this book, presented in chronological order, discuss various aspects of image-making technologies, geometrical knowledge and tools for architectural design, focusing in particular on two historical periods marked by comparable patterns of technological and cultural change. The first is the Renaissance; characterized by the rediscovery of linear perspectives and the ... Read more

    $104.99 USD

  • The Digital Turn in Architecture 1992 - 2012

    Edited by Mario Carpo ...
    Series series AD Reader
    Now almost 20 years old, the digital turn in architecture has already gone through several stages and phases. Architectural Design (AD) has captured them all – from folding to cyberspace, nonlinearity and hypersurfaces, from versioning to scripting, emergence, information modelling and parametricism. It has recorded and interpreted the spirit of the times with vivid documentary precision, ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

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  • Archispeak

    An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Terms

    by Tom Porter ...
    Widely used in architectural circles in the heat of discussion, the recurrent use of particular words and terms has evolved into a language of design jargon. Commonly found in architectural literature and journalism, in critical design debate and especially in student project reviews, Archispeak can seem insular and perplexing to others and -- particularly to the new architectural student -- often ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Relive

    Media Art Histories

    Edited by Sean Cubitt, Paul Thomas ...
    Series series Leonardo
    Leading historians of the media arts define a new materialist media art history, discussing temporality, geography, ephemerality, and the future.In Relive, leading historians of the media arts grapple with this dilemma: how can we speak of “new media” and at the same time write the histories of these arts? These scholars and practitioners redefine the nature of the field, focusing on the materials ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Architecture in Formation

    On the Nature of Information in Digital Architecture

    Edited by Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa, Aaron Sprecher ...
    Architecture in Formation is the first digital architecture manual that bridges multiple relationships between theory and practice, proposing a vital resource to structure the upcoming second digital revolution. Sixteen essays from practitioners, historians and theorists look at how information processing informs and is informed by architecture. Twenty-nine experimental projects propose radical ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Switching Codes

    Thinking Through Digital Technology in the Humanities and the Arts

    Edited by Thomas Bartscherer, Roderick Coover ...
    Half a century into the digital era, the profound impact of information technology on intellectual and cultural life is universally acknowledged but still poorly understood. The sheer complexity of the technology coupled with the rapid pace of change makes it increasingly difficult to establish common ground and to promote thoughtful discussion.Responding to this challenge, Switching Codes brings ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Softspace

    From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space

    Edited by Sean Lally, Jessica Young ...
    This well-illustrated book unites essayists and emerging architectural practices to examine how digital tools are increasingly being used in architectural design, not only to show form, structure and geometries but also to visualize and simulate energies and material qualities such as air, gas, sound, scent and electricity.Softspace takes stock of current advancements in design and research, while ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Abstract Space

    Beneath the Media Surface

    by Therese Tierney ...
    This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions of what the architectural image means today.Within the book's visually imaginative design framework, Abstract Space engages discourses from ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Formulations

    Architecture, Mathematics, Culture

    by Andrew Witt ...
    Series series Writing Architecture
    An investigation of mathematics as it was drawn, encoded, imagined, and interpreted by architects on the eve of digitization in the mid-twentieth century.In Formulations, Andrew Witt examines the visual, methodological, and cultural intersections between architecture and mathematics. The linkages Witt explores involve not the mystic transcendence of numbers invoked throughout architectural history ... Read more

    $28.99 USD