Architectural IntelligenceHow Designers and Architects Created the Digital La…

In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity into their work. Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Architecture Machine Group all incorporated technologies—including cybernetics and artificial intelligence—into their work and…

Die Portale und Skulpturen der Kathedrale von Reims. Zwischen meisterhaftem G…

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1 online resource (23 pages)

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Memo for Nemo

In Memo for Nemo, William Firebrace investigates human inhabitation of the undersea, both fictional and real. Beginning with Jules Verne's Captain Nemo—an undersea Renaissance man with a library of 12,000 volumes on his submarine—and proceeding through aquariums, undersea photography, artificial seas on land, nuclear-powered submarines, undersea film epics, giant squid, and NASA satellites,…

Die vermisste Katharina. Kunstgeschichtliche Rekonstruktion der vermissten Fi…

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9783346566089

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1 online resource (56 pages)

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On AccidentEpisodes in Architecture and Landscape

This collection by "architectural history's most beguiling essayist" (as Reinhold Martin calls the author in the book's foreword) illuminates the unfamiliar, the arcane, the obscure—phenomena largely missing from architectural and landscape history. These essays by Edward Eigen do not walk in a straight line, but roam across uncertain territory, discovering sunken forests, unclassifiable isla…

Eduard Robert Henze in Annaberg-BuchholzSeine Denkmale in Annaberg-Buchholz m…

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9783346637048

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1 online resource (50 pages)

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Aesthetics Equals PoliticsNew Discourses across Art, Architecture, and Philos…

These essays make the case for a reignited understanding of aesthetics—one that casts aesthetics not as illusory, subjective, or superficial, but as a more encompassing framework for human activity. Such an aesthetics, the contributors suggest, could become the primary discourse for political and social engagement. Departing from the "critical" stance of twentieth-century artists and theorist…

Änderungen während der Bauphase des Burj Khalifa

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9783346736567

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1 online resource (13 pages)

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TokyoidsThe Robotic Face of Architecture

In Tokyoids, architect François Blanciak surveys the robotic faces omnipresent in Tokyo buildings, offering an architectural taxonomy based not on the usual variables—size, material, historical style—but on the observable expressions of buildings. Are the eyes (windows) twinkling, the mouth (door) laughing? Is that balcony a howl of distress? Investigating robot aesthetics through his phot…

Michelangelo und Julius II. Auftragsvergabe der Deckenausmalung der Sixtinisc…

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9783346631343

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1 online resource (22 pages)

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