Digital Poetics: An Open Theory of Design-Research in Architecture Contributor(s): Colletti, Marjan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1409445232 ISBN-13: 9781409445234 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $74.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Methods & Materials - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 720.285 |
LCCN: 2013020844 |
Series: Design Research in Architecture |
Physical Information: 366 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Digital Poetics celebrates the architectural design exuberance made possible by new digital modelling techniques and fabrication technologies. By presenting an unconventional and original 'humanistic' theory of CAD (computer-aided design), the author suggests that beyond the generation of innovative engineering forms, digital design has the potential to affect the wider complex cultural landscape of today in profound ways. The book is organised around a synthetic and hybrid research methodology: a contemporary, propositional and theoretical discursive investigation and a design-led empirical research. Both methods inform a critical construct that deals with the nature, forms, and laws of digitality within a contemporary architectural discourse that affects practice and academia. The chapters spiral at, from, towards, around, outside-inwards and back inside-out digitality, its cognitive phenomena, spatial properties and intrinsic capabilities to achieve, or at least, approach Digital Poetics. The book presents speculative and small-scale constructed projects that pioneer techniques and experiments with common 3D and 4D software packages, whereby the focus lies not on the drawing processes and mechanics, but on the agency and impact the image (its reading, experience, interpretation) achieves on the reader and observer. The book also features a preface by Fr d ric Migayrou, a philosopher and curator, and one of the most influential cultural engineers of the contemporary international architectural scene. The book is linked to a website, which contains a larger selection of images of some featured projects. |