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Digital architecture beyond computers : fragments of a cultural history of computational design /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing USA,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; Structure and organization of the book; Acknowledgments; Illustrations; Introduction: Designing with computers; Analogical and digital computing; The elegance of binary code; Data and information; Brief history of computers; Brief history of CAD; Notes; Chapter 1: Database; Introduction; Ramon Llull's wheels; The cosmos in 49 squares9; Leibniz and the Ars Combinatoria; Aby Warburg's Mnemosyne Atlas; Contemporary landscape; Notes; Chapter 2: Morphing; Introduction; Layering: Seeing irregularities; Contouring: Exploring the irregular.
- Lofting: Building the irregularCaging objects; Fields theory and spatiology; Morphing: The dynamics of form; Contemporary landscape; Notes; Chapter 3: Networks; Introduction; The geometrical paradigm; The statistical/topological paradigm; The digital paradigm: World game as a Planetary network; Cybersyn: A socialist network; Contemporary landscape; Notes; Chapter 4: Parametrics; Introduction; From mathematics to CAD; Early parametric design; Baroque: Variation and parametric trigonometry; Physical computation and parametrics; Luigi Moretti: Architettura Parametrica; The contemporary landscape.
- NotesChapter 5: Pixel; Introduction; Sfondato: Beyond physical space; The electric screen; Contemporary landscape; Notes; Chapter 6: Random; Introduction; The limits of reason: Random numbers in history; Michael A. Noll's Gaussian Quadratics; Nanni Balestrini: #109,027,350,432,000 love stories; Karl Chu's catastrophe machine; Applied randomness: Designing through computer simulations; Jay W. Forrester: DYNAMO and the limits of growth; Contemporary landscape; Notes; Chapter 7: Scanning; Introduction; The birth of the digital eye: The perspective machines in the Renaissance.
- Beyond Lenticular Perception: Piero della Francesca's Other MethodAnalogous computing: The development of automatic techniques from Albrecht Dürer to the pantograph; Photosculpture: The rise of photography; The digital scanner; Scanners in architecture; Contemporary landscape; Notes; Chapter 8: Voxels and Maxels; Introduction; Cubelets; Leonardo and Laura Mosso: Architettura programmata; SEEK: Voxels and randomness; Maxels: Or the geometrical deferral; X-rays: Apprehending the invisible; Form without geometry; Kiesler: Maxels and architecture; Contemporary landscape; Notes; Afterword.