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Architectural materialisms : nonhuman creativity

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2018Description: vii,328pISBN:
  • 9781474420570
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DDC classification:
  • 720.1 VOY
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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 Gaudí 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
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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 Gaudí 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

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