Softspace - From a Representation of Form to a Simulation of Space

Informationen zum Autor Sean Lally is Caudill Visiting Assistant Professor at the Rice School of Architecture! Texas! USAJessica Young is Director of Publications at the Rice School of Architecture! Texas! USA. Klappentext Examines how digital tools are increasingly being used in architectural design! not only to show form! structure and geometries but also to visualize and simulate energies and material qualities such as air! gas! sound! scent and electricity. This book also takes stock of the advancements in design and research. Zusammenfassung This well-illustrated and impressively authored title provokes architects of all levels to consider further the potential for creative and innovative design through technological advances. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: The Stuff Between, In & Around Sean Lally & Jessica Youn Introduction: Energies, Matter & the Gradients of Space Sean Lally Putting out the Fire with Gasoline: Parables of Entropy and Homeostasis from the Second Machine Age to the Information Age Christopher Hight Potential Energies Sean Lally The Phenomena of the Non-Visual Michelle Addington Nested Capacities, Gradient Thresholds & Modulated Environments: Towards Differentiated and Multi-Performative Architectures Michael Hensel & Achim Menges Dissipative Procedures: Optimization through ‘Phenomenonization’ Chandler Ahrens, Eran Neuman & Aaron Sprecher Cybernetic Anything... Marcelyn Gow The Archoid Chimera: Electric Space as Social Machine Tobi Schneidler Eco_logics Helene Furján Matter and Sense Jason Payne & Heather Roberge Postscript: This Pipe is Not a Pipe Dream Lars Lerup Postscript: I, the Scent Cube and CSI; or, the Controlled Soft Interior Bart Lootsma Notes, Credits, Biographies

Product details

• Authors: Sean (Rice University Lally, Sean Young Lally
• Assisted by: Sean Lally (Editor), Sean (Rice University Lally (Editor), Lally Sean (Editor), Jessica Young (Editor), Jessica (Rice University Young (Editor), Young Jessica (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.12.2006
• EAN: 9780415402026
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40202-6
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architecture, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Professional Practice, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Civil engineering, surveying and building