Computer Architectures - Constructing the Common Ground (Paperback)

Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works unearthing sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20th century. Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, this book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development. The book is organized into sections corresponding to the classic von Neumann diagram for computer architecture: program (control unit), storage (memory), input/output and computation (arithmetic/logic unit), each acting as a quasi-material category for parsing debates among architects, engineers, mathematicians, and technologists. Collectively, authors bring forth the striking homologies between a computer program and an architectural program, a wall and an interface, computer memory and storage architectures, structures of mathematics and structures of things. The collection initiates new histories of knowledge and technology production that turn an eye toward disciplinary fusions and their institutional and intellectual drives. Constructing the common ground between design and computing, this collection addresses audiences working at the nexus of design, technology, and society, including historians and practitioners of design and architecture, science and technology scholars, and media studies scholars.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society
Release date:	June 2021
First published:	2020
Editors:	Theodora Vardouli • Olga Touloumi
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	244
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-208568-5
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Theory of architecture Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Engineering: general Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > Technical design > Computer aided design (CAD) Books > Computing & IT > Applications of computing > Image processing > Computer animation
LSN:	1-03-208568-1
Barcode:	9781032085685

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