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.

About the author

Andri Gerber (Dr. sc. techn.) lehrt Städtebaugeschichte an der ZHAW Winterthur sowie Architekturgeschichte an der Universität Liechtenstein und habilitiert am gta Institut der ETH Zürich mit einem SNF Ambizione Stipendium.

Summary

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.

Report

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

Urs Honegger, www.hochparterre.ch, 29.11.2019 20191129

Product details

• Authors: Andri Gerber
• Assisted by: Ulrich Götz (Editor), Andri Gerber (Editor), Ulrich Götz (Editor)
• Publisher: Transcript
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2019
• EAN: 9783837648027
• ISBN: 978-3-8376-4802-7
• No. of pages: 346
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 536 g
• Illustrations: 23 schw.-w. u. 100 farb. Abb.
• Series: Architekturen; Architekturen; Architecture in Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general); Stadtplanung, Medientheorie, Medienwissenschaft, Stadtplanung und Architektur, Bau / Baukunst, Architektur - Baukunst, Entwurf / Architektur, Internet / Politik, Gesellschaft, Virtual Environments; Game Architecture; Video Games; Architecture; Media; Space; Computer Games; Digital Media