Daniel Cardoso Llach

Builders of the Vision (eBook, ePUB)

Software and the Imagination of Design

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the contrasting, and often conflicting, sensibilities that converge into CAD and BIM discourses-globalism, utopianism, entrepreneurialism, and architects' desires for aesthetic liberation-Builders of the Vision argues that software systems and numerically controlled machines are not merely "instruments," or "tools," but rather versatile metaphors reconfiguring conceptions of design, materiality, work and creativity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317755951
• Artikelnr.: 43075345

Autorenporträt

Daniel Cardoso Llach is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the Pennsylvania State University, USA, where he teaches courses on the history and theory of computational design and fabrication media, and on creative computing. He holds an S.M. and Ph.D. in Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, and a B.Arch from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures. Preface. Unfamiliar Metaphors: Mirrors, Scaffolds, Slaves.
Unexpected Theorists. A Journey to the East. Acknowledgments. 1.
Introduction: Seeing Software as a Cultural Infrastructure 2. Codification
Before Software: Architectural Inscriptions and the Design-Construction
Split Part One 3. Software Comes to Matter: Encoding Geometry, Materials
and Machines 4. Perfect Slaves and Cooperative Partners: Steven A. Coons
and Computers' New Role in Design 5. Computer-Aided Revolutions: CAD
Experimentalism, Participation and Representation in the Architecture
Machine 6. Visions of Design: Software Stories About Design, Creativity and
Control Part Two 7. The Architect's Bargain: Building the 'Bilbao Effect'
in the Abu Dhabi Desert 8. Contesting the Infrastructure: Resistance
Against and Re-Appropriation of a Digital Model 9. Rethinking Redundancy:
Parametrics of Trust-Building in Digital Practice 10. Coda Bibliography.
Index