TY - GEN AU - Chandler, Ahrens AU - Aaron, Sprecher TI - Instabilities and potentialities : notes on the nature of knowledge in digital architecture SN - 9781138583993 U1 - 720.1 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Routledge KW - N1 - 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 ER -