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Introduction | p. 7 |
People, Computers and Architecture: A Historical Overview | p. 15 |
The emergence of the society of information | p. 16 |
The rise of computer epistemology | p. 24 |
Cybernetics in architecture and planning: patterns, systems and networks | p. 32 |
The formalist turn in postmodernism and critical theory | p. 45 |
Digital culture, space and sociability | p. 48 |
Architecture as interface | p. 55 |
Experiments in Form and Performance | p. 59 |
The seduction of innovative geometries | p. 60 |
Diagramming Complexity | p. 73 |
The surface as architecture | p. 84 |
From animation to algorithmics | p. 94 |
Intricate or minimalist elegance? | p. 100 |
Digital age subjectivity, performance and meaning | p. 104 |
From Tectonic to Ornament: Towards a Different Materiality | p. 115 |
Contemporary technology as Landscape | p. 116 |
The crisis of scale and tectonic | p. 124 |
From memory to oblivion | p. 133 |
Reinventing ornament | p. 138 |
A different Materiality | p. 143 |
Materials by design | p. 159 |
Design strategies and professional perspectives | p. 162 |
Will robotization take command? | p. 164 |
The City in the Digital Sprawl | p. 171 |
Urban features in the digital age | p. 172 |
A City of individuals | p. 177 |
An augmented urban reality | p. 185 |
Events, simulations and scenarios | p. 191 |
Towards a splintered city? | p. 205 |
Conclusion | p. 209 |
Material Continuity and the Design Practice | |
Index | p. 217 |
On the Author | p. 224 |
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