Contents
Foreword: Gilbert Simondon's Key Points viii
Georges Teyssot
Introduction: On the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture 1
Chandler Ahrens and Aaron Sprecher
PART 1
Images: Effect and Affect in the Digital Representation of Architecture 11
1 Episodes in the Emergence of Imaging Practices 1 7
Mark Linder
2 Objective Perspective 33
David Freeland and Brennan Buck
3 Interview 40
Dana Cupkova
4 The Line, the Drawing, and the Model 56
Viola Ago
5 Qualitative Spaces -> Spatial Operating Environments 65
John Carpenter
6 Life Attracts Life 74
Nicholas de Monchaux
PART 2
Objects: Topological Evolution of the Architectural Entity 87
7 In Medias Res: Atmospheres and Hauntings 91
Martin Bressani
8 In Pursuit of Novel Form: Super Light 105
Volkan Alkanoglu
9 Interview 115
Thom Mayne
10 Objects: Technology, Technique, Techne: Creation vs. Contingency in Computational Design 125
Alvin Huang
11 Post-Digital as Design Authorship: In Informed Material Processes 136
Pablo Lorenz o-Eiroa
12 Mapping in the Age of Electronic Shadows 150
Alessandra Ponte
PART 3
Discipline: Transdisciplinarity and Potentialities 163
13 Machines in Architecture: From Performance to Accident: A Modern Trope and Its Afterlife 169
Laurent Stalder
14 Design Outside of the Frame: A Role of Architects in the Era of Artificial Intelligence 176
Satoru Sugihara
15 Interview 183
Greg Lynn
16 Exercises in Style: A Transdisciplinary Discussion 194
Tom Shaked and Uri Dubin
17 From an Autopoietic to a Sympoietic Architecture Discipline 203
Jose Sanchez
18 Dissimilar at First Sight: Structural Abstraction and the Promises of Isomorphism in 1960s Architectural Theory 209
Theodora Vardouli
POSTSCRIPT 221
19 Digital Fabrication, Between Disruption and Nostalgia 223
Antoine Picon
Biographies 239
Acknowledgments 245
Index 247