The Possibility of (an) Architecture
Collected Essays by Mark Goulthorpe, dECOi Architects
Price: $44.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-77495-6
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 10th July 2008
- Pages: 224
About the Book
Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural praxis. Essays and lectures from the last fifteen years discuss these changes in relation to dECOi Architects, created in 1991 as a forward-looking architectural practice.
This excellent collection will have relevance to architectural professionals, academics and students and also to practitioners in many related creative fields who are similarly engaged in trying to comprehend the disciplinary significance of the import of digital media.
Table of Contents
Foreword John McMorrough Introduction 1. Devotio Moderna 2. Hystera Protera 3. Le Bloc Fracture 4.The Inscrutable House 5. The Active Inert: Notes on Technic Praxis 6. Cut Idea: William Forsythe and an Architecture of Disappearance 7. Post Card to Parent 8. Misericord to a Grotesque Reification 9. Technological Latency 10. Gaudi’s Hanging Presence 11. From Autoplastic to Alloplastic Tendency 12. Notes on Digital Nesting 13. The Digital Surrational 14. Praxis Interview: Precise Indeterminancy 15. Rabbit K(not) Borroro 16. Sinthome: Plastik Conditional 17. Epilogue
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