CONTENTS
Introduction 7
Peopie, Computers and Architecture: A Historicai Overview15
The emergence of the society of Information 16
The rise of computer epIstemolg y 24
cybernetics In architecture and plnning : patterns, systems and networks32
The formaIist turn In postmodernism and criticaI theory 45
Digitai culture, space and socIability 48
Architecture as Interface 55
Experiments in Form and Performance59
The seductIon of InnovatIve geometrIes 60
Diagramming complexity 73
The surface as architecture 84
From animatIon to aIgorithmics 94
Intricate or minimaIist eleg ance7 100
DigitaI age Subjectivity, performance and meaning 104
From Tectonic to Ornament: Towards a Different Materiality II5
contempora ry technolog y as Iandscape 116
reinventing ornament 138
A different materiaIity 143
Materals by design 159
Design strategies and professionaI perspectives162
wiII robotizatIon take command? 164
The City in the Digital Sprawl 171
Urban fatures In the digital age 172
A City of Individuals 177
An aug mented urban reaIity 185
Events, simulation s and scenarIos 191
Towards a splintered CIty7 205
Conciusion 209
Material Continuity and the Design Practice
Index 217
On the Author 224