Computer Architectures

List of contents

1. Introduction: Toward a Polyglot Space PART I PROGRAM 2. Computing Environmental Design 3. The Work of Design and the Design of Work: Olivetti and the Political Economy of its Early Computers 4. "Bewildered, the Form-Maker Stands Alone": Computer Architecture and the Quest for Design Rationality PART II INPUT/OUTPUT 5. Augmentation and Interface: Tracing a Spectrum 6. The First Failure of Man-Computer Symbiosis: The Hospital Computer Project, 1960-1968 7. The Unclean Human-Machine Interface PART III STORAGE 8. Architectures of Information: A Comparison of Wiener’s and Shannon’s Theories of Information 9. Bureaucracy’s Playthings PART IV COMPUTATION 10. Imagining Architecture as a Form of Concrete Poetry 11. The Axiomatic Aesthetic

About the author

Theodora Vardouli is Assistant Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada.
Olga Touloumi is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Bard College, USA.

Summary

Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works that unearth sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20th century.

Additional text

"This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It’s a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice." -  Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Product details

• Authors: Olga Touloumi, Theodora Vardouli, Theodora (Massachusetts Instiute of Tech Vardouli
• Assisted by: Olga Touloumi (Editor), Olga (Bard College Touloumi (Editor), Theodora Vardouli (Editor), Theodora (Massachusetts Instiute of Technology Vardouli (Editor)
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780815396529
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-9652-9
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 242 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; ARCHITECTURE / Buildings / Residential, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, Computer-Aided Design (CAD), ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, Technical design, Information technology: general issues, Engineering: general, Computer architecture & logic design, Information technology: general topics, Computer architecture and logic design, Digital Animation