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The plan journal tpj intends to disseminate and promote innovative, thoughtprovoking and relevant research, studies and criticism in architecture and urbanism. The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. The criteria for selecting contributions will be innovation, clarity of purpose. The first was a blockbuster display of four projects by lynns mentors.
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Simplicity in digital architecture is the ultimate goal. 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. The criteria for selecting contributions will be innovation, clarity of purpose and method, and potential transformational impact on disciplinary fields or the broader sociocultural. Digital architecture 101 data driven digital transformation. Construction history innovative applications in architecture. This book provides a good opportunity to question construction history, to examine in particular the type of relation it has or should have with. Digital culture in architecture 2010 offers a comprehensive overview of this important transition.
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Digital technologies in architecture, then youve come to loyal site. School of architecture inputs architecture in the age of. Almost a century later, if we replace the word machine civilization with digital civilization we might say that architecture finds. Scale and tectonic legibility are no longer givens, while ornament and. An introduction for the design professions by antoine picon. Digital culture in architecture by antoine picon 20100409. Digital culture in architecture by antoine picon, 9783034602594.
An introduction for the design professions 2010, proposes a general reflection on the. An introduction for the design professions, antoine picon, birkhauser, basel 2010 pp. Digital culture in architecture by antoine picon 2010 0409. Find materials for this course in the pages linked along the left. Ware professor of the history of architecture and technology at harvard graduate school of design.
Digital culture in architecture by antoine picon 201004. Tpj intends to disseminate and promote innovative, thoughtprovoking and relevant research, studies and criticism in architecture and urbanism. Professor of the history of architecture and technology, gsd, harvard university, cambridge ma, usa. Almost a century later, if we replace the word machine civilization with digital civilization we might say that architecture finds itself in a similar situation. An introduction for the design professions antoine picon. Three of his recent books are dealing extensively with this question. Accordingly, this volume investigates the status of the exchanges between the two domains. This volume provides a profound introduction to the important role of digital technologies in architectural design and related fields. Digital culture in architecture find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Antoine picon digital culture in architecture an rntroductlon. He has published extensively on the relations of architecture, science and technology.
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