Disappearing Architecture (eBook)

From Real to Virtual to Quantum

Georg Flachbart, Peter Weibel (Herausgeber)

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2005
272 Seiten
Birkhäuser (Verlag)
978-3-7643-7674-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The creation of new environments through the use of developments in Information Technology is significantly altering not only architecture itself but also the roles and tasks of the architects. Architecture can no longer be described in the terms we are familiar with since it no longer corresponds to the form of architecture as we know it: an inclusive and exclusive structure, clearly defined, with a single interior and a single exterior. For architects, the challenge of the future will increasingly lie in creatively coming to terms with hybrid environments, understanding and exploiting the design potential of digital spaces within the physical world, and redefining the role of architecture within a visually dominated culture. This volume presents a valuable and attractive contribution to the contemporary discussion on this subject.

Inhalt

PREFACE. From the Editors 8
COMPACT INTRO 10
Disappearing Architecture From Real to Virtual to Quantum 10
PART ONE. THE INFRASTRUCTURE: Information Technology Infrastructure for Open, Distributed and Heterogeneous Application Environments 16
1.1 GENERAL APPROACH 18
After the Revolution. Instruments of Displacement 18
The Architecture of the Multiverse 24
1.2 SPECIAL REPORTS. THE NEXT-GENERATION COMPUTING 30
Autonomic Computing. Building Self-managing Computing Systems 32
Grid Computing. Basis of Multi-institutional Virtual Organizations 42
Ubiquitous Computing. Computation Embedded in the World 52
The Development of Quantum Hardware for Quantum Computing 62
PART ZERO. THE ARCHITECTURE: Intersections of Real and Virtual Space in an Authentic. Architecture of the Digital Era 78
0.1 GENERAL APPROACH 80
Constructing an Authentic Architecture of the Digital Era 80
A New Kind of Building 90
0.2 SPECIAL REPORTS. MODELS OF MIXED-REALITY ENVIRONMENTS 116
Implosion of Numbers. Performative Mixed Reality 118
Cybernarium. A Mixed-Reality Edutainment Center 132
T_Visionarium. Towards a Dialogic Concept of Digital Narrative 144
Enhancing Spatiality. From HardWare to Soft Form 
152 
The Relationship between Architecture and Virtual Media 162
Architecture as a Media Catalyst 174
Architecture as a Habitable Medium 184
Impact of Network Logic on Space and its Making 196
Network Practice and the Products of Networking 206
Protospace 2.0. The ICT-driven Collaborative Design Working Space 218
Entering an Age of Fluidity 236
SUMMING UP 248
From Box to Intersection. Architecture at the Crossroads 250
Building Terminal For an Architecture without Objectness 258
COMPACT EXTRO 264
Architecture From Location to Nonlocation, from Presence to Absence 264

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.9.2005
• Zusatzinfo: 150 col. ill.
• Verlagsort: Basel/Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Architecture • Hybrid Spaces • Information Technology • Virtual Reality
• ISBN-10: 3-7643-7674-0 / 3764376740
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7643-7674-1 / 9783764376741