Abstract Space - Beneath the Media Surface

Informationen zum Autor Therese Tierney is a doctoral scholar at the University of California Berkeley where she is a Malcolm Reynolds Fellow. She has worked as a practicing architect in San Francisco and has held teaching positions at the University of California Berkeley and California College of the Arts. Klappentext Attempts to investigate the cultural connection between media and architectural imaging. Exploring notions of what the architectural image means! this book engages discourses from architecture! visual and cultural studies to computer science and communications technology to present a multi-media case study. Zusammenfassung This rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Architecture and Abstraction: Topologies of New Media 2. Architectural Modes of Seeing: Visual Theory and Cognition 3. Formulating Abstraction: Conceptual Art and the Architectural Object 4. Mapping Absence: Architectural Contingencies 5. Generative Systems: Evolving Computational Strategies 6. Formal Matters: The Virtual as a Generative Concept 7. The Status of the Architectural Image

Product details

• Authors: Therese Tierney, Therese (Media Laboratory Tierney, Tierney Therese
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.03.2007
• EAN: 9780415415095
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41509-5
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Architekturtheorie, Kunst, allgemein, History, Media Studies, ARCHITECTURE / Landscape, The arts: general issues, ARCHITECTURE / Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Criticism, ARCHITECTURE / Study & Teaching, Humanities, Civil engineering, surveying & building, Theory of architecture, Civil engineering, surveying and building, The arts: general topics