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Books IV-VI (Hardcover)
Ludger Hovestadt; Edited by Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Buhlmann
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Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt's treatise strictly
follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De
architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on the
supposition that we find ourselves in a comparable situation today.
Vitruvius and Alberti expressed the meaning of architecture in
their eras: Roman antiquity and the Renaissance. Hovestadt has done
the same for the present day, incorporating considerations of
physics, mathematics, technology, literature, and philosophy. Books
I to III deal with the role of the architect and the objectivity of
architecture. Books IV to VI address the modalities of speaking
about and encoding architecture: the secret, the public, and the
private. Books VII to X are dedicated to actual digital mechanisms:
artificial intelligence, natural communication, gnomonics, and
cultural heritage. An architectural treatise for our age in 10
books Inspired by the works of Vitruvius and Alberti Published in
three volumes in the Applied Virtuality Book Series, Vol. 19, 20,
and 21
domesticating symbols looks at the entropic dissolution of symbolic
structures we are experiencing today and explores various
approaches towards learning to create code. Photovoltaics and its
capacity to capture energy by coding instead of exploitation of
resources, and of integrating in additional or surplus quantities
of energy into the ecosphere of the planet's natural balance is the
central focus of this publication. Energythereby also encompasses
the genuinely abstract format of electricity, which makes it
possible to convert any form of energy into any other form. This is
the second volume of the Applied Virtuality book series based on
the Metalithicum Conferences by the Laboratory of Applied
Virtuality at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich.
This book shifts the frame of reference for today's network- and
structure oriented discussions from the applied computational tools
of the 20th century back to the abstractness of 19th century
mathematics. It re-reads George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann
Grassmann and Bernhard Riemann in a surprising manner.
EigenArchitecture argues for a literacy of the digital, displacing
the role of geometrical craftsmanship. Thus, architecture can be
liberated from today's economical, technocratic and bureaucratic
straight jackets: from physicalistic optimization, sociological
balancing, and ideological naturalizations. The book comprises a
programmatic text on the role of technology in architecture, a
philosophical text on the generic and on algebraic articulation,
and six exemplary projects by postgraduate students in 2012 at the
Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design at ETH Zurich,
Switzerland.
"SHEAVES" will not describe anything. It will not judge. It will
inspire. There are no continuous texts, but a wide range of topics.
How to read this book? Take the notions seriously. Search the
Internet and they will lose their generalness. They will begin to
speak to you vividly. Bundle these riches with the riches of other
notions and they will activate each other. Also take the pictures
seriously. Photograph or scan them. Use them as an index, while
searching the Internet. Again, you will find rich stories. Bundle
those riches, concentrate them into new identities that are
interesting to you. Let yourself be inspired by the intellectual
wealth of our world. You can expand it. It is an exciting
adventure, demanding and optimistic.
In his 1979 essay The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge
philosopher Jean-François Lyotard noted that the advent of the
computer opened up a stage of progress in which knowledge has
become a commodity. Modernity and postmodernity appear as two
stages of a process resulting from the conflict of science and
narrative. As science attempts to distance itself from narrative,
it must create its own legitimacy. This paper takes up this
challenge with a focus on the question of imagery. The image is
precisely what modern science seeks to free itself from in its
quest for absolute transparency. This transparency is examined from
the perspective of architecture, drawing on arguments from
philosophy, quantum mechanics, theology and information theory.
Natural science in the context of postmodernism Quantum mechanics
and information theory New volume in the Applied Virtuality book
series
In The Digital – A Continent?, the author argues in favor of a
way of thinking about digital technology that draws on the new
materialism. She uses photosynthesis and nuclear fission as
examples of processes that are as artificial as they are natural to
explain how digital technology can be viewed within the paradigm of
a ‘communicative physics’ in which poetics interacts with
mathematical thinking. The author concludes that we can better
understand ourselves and digital technology by developing notions
of the multifaceted ways energy, form, and intellect interact in
global architectonics. Theoretical consideration of digital
technology Visual language and science New volume in the Applied
Virtuality book series
Edited by Ludger Hovestadt and Vera Buhlmann Applied Virtuality is
a book series which is edited by Ludger Hovestadt, ITA Institute of
Technology in Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland and Vera
Buhlmann, Technical University Vienna, Institute for Architectural
Theory. Based on the thesis that technology changes character over
time, the series aims and scopes are to reflect that change by
describing and analyzing the most recent explorations and
innovations in technology, as well as their implications for a more
philosophically comprehensive understanding of technics in our
contemporary symbolical, information saturated, climatic
environments. The overall interest thereby is to (1) affirm the
mightiness of the generic without embracing homogeneity as a
necessary consequence, (2) to affirm calculation, computation and
automatization without embracing the reduction of human intellect
to mechanisation without arcane esprit, and (3) to oppose in
principle the contemporary attitude that tends towards a certain
"intellectual chicness" that seems to rather narcissistically
celebrate itself in a strangely detached competition for "critical
divination" of soon-to-be-expected cultural doom and decay. With
the birth of abstract/symbolic/universal algebra in the late 19th
century, many scholars associate a fundamental crisis that affects
human culture at large. We owe all of our contemporary electric and
information-based infrastructures for living to these developments
in mathematics, and it is no coincidence that we tend to find the
symptoms that point to the manifestation of this crisis in the
changes this new form of technics imposes on the people who begin
to rely on it. This crisis is classically conceived as a crisis of
intuition (Hans Hahn, Edmund Husserl et cetera). But from a more
appreciative stance towards the sheer unlikeliness and fantastic
power of intellection which is at work everywhere in the reality of
such media-ized living environments, we might just as well see in
this characterization an anxious (even if all-too understandable)
misconception of the critical developments we are experiencing.
From this stance, the sheer prominence of this misconception today
indicates what appears like a certain fatigue of thinking, perhaps
an exhaustion-through-overwhelming of our collective power to
imagine. We mean no offence by saying this. Let us illustrate more
concretely: John Orton maintains in his book Semiconductors and the
Information Revolution: Magic Crystals That Made IT Happen, that
"as a human achievement," semiconductors ought to "rank alongside
the Beethoven Symphonies, Concord, Impressionism, medieval
cathedrals and Burgundy wines and we should be equally proud of it"
(2009, p. 2). Why is it, indeed, that this demand feels odd? Of
course this lack of appreciating our current form of technics is
owed partially to its abstractness and the degree of expertise it
seems to demand from us. But has this not been the case for any of
the abovementioned artifacts we all meanwhile hold as precious and
dear? We hope to find the right dosage of irony and humor that
seems so necessary for theorizing technics, arts, intellection in a
manner that seeks to escape (1) the servile irresponsibility that
attaches to programs of mechanization, as well as (2) the
narrow-mindedness and missionary commitment that attaches to
ideological doctrine and programmatic. By celebrating moments of
intellectual quickness, with our interest in theory and
abstraction, we pursue a genuinely comparatistic approach. We
regard artifacts as theoretical objects, constituted by the
intelligible codes and symbolic grammaticality that give them
consistency. But we don't see the reality of artifacts in the white
spectrum of these codes and symbols; rather, we see their reality
in that which is enciphered thereby. The ambitions of a
comparatistic approach to theory strive towards an alphabetization
and literacy of these codes.
Free thinking, unconstrained by facts The book is based on the
thesis that we live in a world of abundance, full of natural
riches, and cultural artifacts, full of human intellect and
powerful technologies. Our thinking, however, is dominated by the
opposite, the notion of scarcity. The limits of nature act as an
inevitable necessity. In his book, David Schildberger adopts a
novel approach to the subject of resources, with the help of
intelligent instruments that introduce new foods, such as chocolate
made from cocoa cell cultures, and even a fruit-bearing vine raised
far from a vineyard. With his imagined scenarios, the author
invites the reader to dare stretch their intellectual imaginations
and ultimately presents nature as a contingent. Conceptual models
on the subject of nature and alternative ways of producing food
Recommended reading for architectural IT specialists New volume in
the Applied Virtuality Book Series
In Natural Communication, the author criticizes the current
paradigm of specific goal orientation in the complexity sciences
and proposes an alternative that envisions a fundamental
architectonics of communication. His model of "natural
communication" encapsulates modern theoretical concepts from
mathematics and physics, in particular category theory and quantum
theory. From these fields it abstracts precise concepts such as to
constitute a terminological basis for this theory which offers the
opportunity to open up novel ways of thinking about complexity. The
author is convinced that it is only possible to establish a
continuity and coherence with contemporary thinking, especially
with respect to complexity, through looking into the past.
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Books I-III (Hardcover)
Ludger Hovestadt; Edited by Ludger Hovestadt, Vera Buhlmann
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R1,193
Discovery Miles 11 930
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Treatise on digital architecture Hovestadt's treatise strictly
follows the model of the famous treatises by Vitruvius (De
architectura) and Alberti (De re aedificatoria), based on the
supposition that we find ourselves in a comparable situation today.
Vitruvius and Alberti expressed the meaning of architecture in
their eras: Roman antiquity and the Renaissance. Hovestadt has done
the same for the present day, incorporating considerations of
physics, mathematics, technology, literature, and philosophy. Books
I to III deal with the role of the architect and the objectivity of
architecture. Books IV to VI address the modalities of speaking
about and encoding architecture: the secret, the public, and the
private. Books VII to X are dedicated to actual digital mechanisms:
artificial intelligence, natural communication, gnomonics, and
cultural heritage. An architectural treatise for our age in 10
books Inspired by the works of Vitruvius and Alberti Published in
three volumes in the Applied Virtuality Book Series
Digital technology and architecture have become inseparable, with
new approaches and methodologies not just affecting the workflows
and practice of architects but shaping the very character of
architecture. This compendious work offers a wide-ranging
orientation to the new landscape with its opportunities, its
challenges, and its vast potential. Contributing Editors: Ludger
Hovestadt, Urs Hirschberg, Oliver Fritz Contributors: Diana
Alvarez-Marin, Jakob Beetz, André Borrmann, Petra von Both, Harald
Gatermann, Marco Hemmerling, Ursula Kirschner, Reinhard König,
Dominik Lengyel, Bob Martens, Frank Petzold, Sven Pfeiffer, Miro
Roman, Kay Römer, Hans Sachs, Philipp Schaerer, Sven Schneider,
Odilo Schoch, Milena Stavric, Peter Zeile, Nikolaus Zieske Writer:
Sebastian Michael atlasofdigitalarchitecture.com
In this anthology with contributions about architecture, media, and
infrastructure technology, the authors investigate in what
multifaceted way architecture and information is in tune with
contemporary technology, and in what way we live with them. The
book is divided into following parts: BREEDING (medialising
matter), BREATHING (transcending language), and INHABITING (making
things inhabitable). The compilation of various text contributions
creates a lexicon of 'naturing affairs' and is written for readers
who look for an inspiring overview of our medialised environments.
How does coding change the way we think about architecture? This
question opens up an important research perspective. In this book,
Miro Roman and his AI Alice_ch3n81 develop a playful scenario in
which they propose coding as the new literacy of information. They
convey knowledge in the form of a project model that links the
fields of architecture and information through two interwoven
narrative strands in an "infinite flow" of real books. Focusing on
the intersection of information technology and architectural
formulation, the authors create an evolving intellectual reflection
on digital architecture and computer science.
Digital technology and architecture have become inseparable, with
new approaches and methodologies not just affecting the workflows
and practice of architects but shaping the very character of
architecture. This compendious work offers a wide-ranging
orientation to the new landscape with its opportunities, its
challenges, and its vast potential. Contributing Editors: Ludger
Hovestadt, Urs Hirschberg, Oliver Fritz Contributors: Diana
Alvarez-Marin, Jakob Beetz, Andre Borrmann, Petra von Both, Harald
Gatermann, Marco Hemmerling, Ursula Kirschner, Reinhard Koenig,
Dominik Lengyel, Bob Martens, Frank Petzold, Sven Pfeiffer, Miro
Roman, Kay Roemer, Hans Sachs, Philipp Schaerer, Sven Schneider,
Odilo Schoch, Milena Stavric, Peter Zeile, Nikolaus Zieske Writer:
Sebastian Michael atlasofdigitalarchitecture.com
Imagine a world where the power is always on, where there is not
just enough energy, but an abundance of it. Such a world is no
Utopia, it is a possible reality. Using indefinitely available
sources of energy - especially photovoltaic solar, in combination
with others - and networking this energy, much in the way that we
have networked information, we can get beyond our current energy
'crisis' and resolve it. The world we then find ourselves in is not
a world without problems - we will face new challenges on the way -
but in terms of energy it is a world of plenty. Rooted in sound
theory and based on technology that is available now, A Genius
Planet offers an accessible but detailed and insightful perspective
on how we can free ourselves from our dependency on natural
resources and generate, trade, and use energy in ways that open up
the genuine potential that we have at our disposal today.
The Atlas of Fantastic infrastructures deals with the
characterization of architecture, media and digital infrastructure.
In concrete terms, it deals with the materiality of buildings and
the intangibility of data. While technical or functional studies
often tend to "flatten" the multiplex phenomena, the author
speculatively propose four abstract prisms: 1) AFFAIR WITH PHANTOMS
- who do we want to meet in a digitally mediated space, and what
kind of conversation/activity will we have?; 2) PARA-DESIRE - where
do our surreal desires live, and what are their strategies?; 3)
MEDIATED SPACE CATALOGUE - what kinds of data, information, things,
spaces and places are available in the world, and how our
activities blend them?; 4) GIFTS OF THE GARDENS - how can an idea
enter physical reality, and what are the pathways of such
becomings? The author examines buildings and projects by Toyo Ito,
Philippe Rahm, Olafur Eliasson, Greg Lynn, MVRDV, Electroland,
Troika, NOX, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and others.
Professor Ludger Hovestadt's Institute for Computer-Aided
Architectural Design at the Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule
(ETH) Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) is
widely regarded as one of the world's most important institutes
currently working at the interface between architecture and
information technology. The combination of these two makes it
possible to see architecture no longer as a separate sphere of
technological reality but rather as one element of a society based
on information technology. As a universal tool, the computer
encourages one to think in terms of information structures and
systems that span individual fields. This "rethinking" of the
nature of architecture is leading to a paradigm shift at the
methodological level of design, planning, construction, and
economy. After a decade of experimentation, it has now become
possible to see information technology for architecture as the
basis for a new and energy-saving practical approach to building.
This publication presents the work of the chair for CAAD using
numerous examples - from the spectacular Monte Rosa Alpine hut of
Andrea Deplazes to the residential development of KCAP.
Symbolizing Existence deals with the current rapidly happening
"deterritorialization" of everything which was once regarded stable
and binding.
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