Architectonics of Game Spaces - The Spatial Logic of the Virtual and Its Meaning for the Real

What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to turn game-worlds into sustainable places - over here, in »reality«?
This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of the relationships such practices have established with the design of architecture. Due to their often simulatory nature, games reveal constructions of reality while positively impacting spatial ability and allowing for alternative avenues to complex topics and processes of negotiation. Granting insight into the merging of the design of real and virtual environments, this volume offers an invaluable platform for further debate.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Andri Gerber (Prof. Dr.) ist Co-Leiter am Institut konstruktives Entwerfen an der ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

Zusammenfassung

What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to turn game-worlds into sustainable places – over here, in »reality«?This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of the relationships such practices have established with the design of architecture. Due to their often simulatory nature, games reveal constructions of reality while positively impacting spatial ability and allowing for alternative avenues to complex topics and processes of negotiation. Granting insight into the merging of the design of real and virtual environments, this volume offers an invaluable platform for further debate.

Zusatztext

»Die Lektüre [...] ist sowohl für Game Designer als auch für Architektinnen lohnenswert und inspirierend.«

Bericht

Besprochen in:
www.architecturalrecord.com, 07.07.2020, Andrew Blum

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Andri Gerber
• Mitarbeit: Ulrich Götz (Herausgeber), Andri Gerber (Herausgeber), Götz (Herausgeber), Ulrich Götz (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Transcript
• Sprache: Englisch, Deutsch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783837648027
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-4802-7
• Seiten: 346
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 227 mm x 24 mm
• Gewicht: 536 g
• Illustration: 23 SW-Abb., 100 Farbabb.
• Serien: Architekturen; Architekturen; Architecture in Practice
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geisteswissenschaften allgemein; Stadtplanung, Medientheorie, Medienwissenschaft, Architektur, Informatik, Verstehen, Spiel, Stadtplanung und Architektur, Architecture, Space, Media, Popular Culture, Digital Media, Video Games, The arts: general issues, Social interaction, Decorative arts, Bau / Baukunst, Architektur - Baukunst, Entwurf / Architektur, Internet / Politik, Gesellschaft, Computer Games, Virtual Environments; Game Architecture; Video Games; Architecture; Media; Space; Computer Games; Digital Media, The arts, Communities, Social Sciences, auseinandersetzen, Ethical & social aspects of IT, Sociology and anthropology, Electronic, holographic & video art, Kunst: allgemeine Themen, Virtual environments, Culture and institutions, Factors affecting social behavior, Data processing and computer science, Computer art (Digital art), Game Spaces, Game Architecture