New Flatness : Surface Tension in Digital Architecture

by Imperiale, Alicia

• ISBN13: 9783764362959
• ISBN10: 3764362952
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
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Summary

In recent architecture theory and practise there has been a tendency to refer to exteriors as a skin concealing an interior, as opposed to the traditional and more physical concepts of surface, flatness, and depth. The computer now enables the architect to call his design into life, free from the rigid material form, and view it as a flexible and interactive creation. In this book, the concepts of flatness and surface tension are examined in the light of virtual design and built reality. A selection of projects are presented to show how the architects regard space and surfaces in modern architectural practice in a digital age.

Author Biography

Alicia Imperiale is a Professor of Architecture at Barnard College, Columbia University and Pratt Institute in New York.

Table of Contents

Slippery Surfaces	5	(1)
Surface tension	6	(11)
Body Surfaces	6	(1)
Body Image(s)	6	(3)
Flatness	9	(5)
Mapping Time	14	(1)
``Flattened Topologies''	15	(2)
Architectural Surfaces	17	(18)
Depthlessness of Surface	17	(1)
Immaterial and Virtual	18	(1)
Beauty is Skin Deep	19	(3)
Media Surfaces	22	(1)
Folded Surfaces	23	(8)
Mapped Surfaces	31	(3)
Topological Surfaces	34	(1)
Digital Technology and New Surfaces	35	(24)
Digital Grounding	35	(3)
Computer Numerically Controlled Manufacturing	38	(1)
The World of NURBS	39	(3)
Striated to Smooth Urban Space	42	(1)
Networked Surfaces	43	(4)
Hybridization, the Chimerical	47	(3)
Deep Surfaces	50	(6)
Moving Glass/Digital Stone	56	(2)
Serial Originals	58	(1)
Virtual/Real Interface	59	(15)
Virtual and First Reality Environments	61	(5)
Multimedia Environments	66	(1)
Morphogenesis	67	(3)
Hypersurface Architectures	70	(1)
Blobs Built	71	(3)
Time Frozen / Form Liberated?	74	(4)
Towards an Interdisciplinary Critique	78	(6)
Annotated Bibliography	84