Architectural materialisms : nonhuman creativity
Voyatzaki, Maria Ed.
Architectural materialisms : nonhuman creativity - Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2018 - vii,328p. - New materialisms Ed. by Iris van der Tuin and Rosi Braidotti .
Contents
Acknowledgements; vii
Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity; 1
PART I
Chapter 1 Causality and Meaning in the New Materialism 31
Chapter 2 Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudà and the Colliding Forces of Traditional and Innovative Construction 46
Chapter 3 Internalising Continuous Variation 68
Chapter 4 Paramateriality: Novel Biodigital Manifolds 88
Chapter 5 A Vital, Architectural Materialism: A House-person's Escape from the Anthropocentric 111
Chapter 6 Performing Bitumen, Materialising Desiré 132
PART II
Chapter 7 Machine-oriented Architecture: Oikos and Ecology 161
Chapter 8 The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the Middle 176
PART III
Chapter 9 Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and Pollution 207
Chapter 10 The Intelligence of Computational Design 228
Chapter 11 Grothendieck Topoi: Architectural and Plastic Imagination beyond Material Number and Space 251
Chapter 12 Vicarious Architectonics, Strange Objects, Chance-bound: Michel Serres's Exodus from Methodical Reason 267
Chapter 13 Transmythologies; Notes on Contributors 293
Notes on Contributors 316
Index 319
9781474420570
720.1 / VOY
Architectural materialisms : nonhuman creativity - Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2018 - vii,328p. - New materialisms Ed. by Iris van der Tuin and Rosi Braidotti .
Contents
Acknowledgements; vii
Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity; 1
PART I
Chapter 1 Causality and Meaning in the New Materialism 31
Chapter 2 Tangible versus Intangible Materiality: Interpreting Gaudà and the Colliding Forces of Traditional and Innovative Construction 46
Chapter 3 Internalising Continuous Variation 68
Chapter 4 Paramateriality: Novel Biodigital Manifolds 88
Chapter 5 A Vital, Architectural Materialism: A House-person's Escape from the Anthropocentric 111
Chapter 6 Performing Bitumen, Materialising Desiré 132
PART II
Chapter 7 Machine-oriented Architecture: Oikos and Ecology 161
Chapter 8 The Compass of Beauty: A Search for the Middle 176
PART III
Chapter 9 Architectures of Air: Media Ecologies of Smart Cities and Pollution 207
Chapter 10 The Intelligence of Computational Design 228
Chapter 11 Grothendieck Topoi: Architectural and Plastic Imagination beyond Material Number and Space 251
Chapter 12 Vicarious Architectonics, Strange Objects, Chance-bound: Michel Serres's Exodus from Methodical Reason 267
Chapter 13 Transmythologies; Notes on Contributors 293
Notes on Contributors 316
Index 319
9781474420570
720.1 / VOY