Automatic architecture :: motivating form after modernism /

In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favour, they had one thing in common: they advocated...

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1. Verfasser: Keller, Sean (Architectural historian) (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2018.
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Zusammenfassung:In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favour, they had one thing in common: they advocated moving away from the traditional reliance on an individual architect's knowledge and instincts and toward the use of external tools and processes that were considered objective, logical, or natural. Automatic architecture was born. The quixotic attempts to formulate such design processes extended modernist principles and tried to draw architecture closer to mathematics and the sciences. By focusing on design methods, and by examining evidence at a range of scales, this text offers an alternative to narratives of this period that have presented postmodernism as a question of style.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (188 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780226496528
022649652X