Computer Architectures (Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society) - Softcover

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9781032085685: Computer Architectures (Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society)
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ISBN 10: 1032085681 ISBN 13: 9781032085685
Publisher: Routledge, 2021

Synopsis

Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works unearthing sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20th century.

Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, this book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development. The book is organized into sections corresponding to the classic von Neumann diagram for computer architecture: program (control unit), storage (memory), input/output and computation (arithmetic/logic unit), each acting as a quasi-material category for parsing debates among architects, engineers, mathematicians, and technologists. Collectively, authors bring forth the striking homologies between a computer program and an architectural program, a wall and an interface, computer memory and storage architectures, structures of mathematics and structures of things. The collection initiates new histories of knowledge and technology production that turn an eye toward disciplinary fusions and their institutional and intellectual drives.

Constructing the common ground between design and computing, this collection addresses audiences working at the nexus of design, technology, and society, including historians and practitioners of design and architecture, science and technology scholars, and media studies scholars.

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About the Author

Theodora Vardouli is Assistant Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada.

Olga Touloumi is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Bard College, USA.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1032085681
ISBN 13 
9781032085685
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
244
Editor
Vardouli Theodora, Touloumi Olga

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