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Digital architectures branko kolarevic, university of pennsylvania, usa abstract this paper surveys different approaches in contemporary architectural design in which digital media is used not as a representational tool for visualization but as a generative tool for the derivation of form and its transformation. View notes week 11 server farms and digital infrastructure. Most digital architecture efforts so far are tactical rather than strategic responses to the challenge of the digital revolution. Picon, antoine as cities compete globally, the smart city has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. By way of several ground breaking projects, it offers a brief and informative background to the rise of digital fabrication in architecture, providing insight into why it has sparked.
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Digital culture in architecture by antoine picon 20100409. Apr 21, 2014 antoine picon is the g ware travelstead professor of the history of architecture and technology and codirector of doctoral programs at harvard graduate school of design gsd. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, picon works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the eighteenth century. Antoine picons new book argues that the real digital revolution in. Ware travelstead professor of the history of architecture and technology at the harvard graduate school of design. Digital culture and architecture evolution or revolution. He teaches courses in the history of architecture and technology. In some cases, what seems left to architects is a task akin to fashion design, a perspective evoked a few years ago by ben van berkel and caroline bos with an enthusiasm that one is not obliged to share. Sep 15, 2010 digital culture in architecture by antoine picon, 9783034602594, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. A large number of these images and metaphors are linked to the devel opment of digital architecture and to the growing importance given to the virtual dimension in the architectural discipline. Almost a century later, if we replace the word machine civilization with digital civilization we might say that architecture finds. Sep 09, 2017 antoine picon argues that digital technology is giving rise to a new materiality in architecture.
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