Network Practices: New Strategies in Architecture and Design - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568987013 ISBN 13: 9781568987019

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007

Synopsis

The twin revolutions of the global economy and omnipresent Internet connectivity have had a profound impact on architectural design. Geographical gaps and, in many cases, architecture's tie to the built world itself have evaporated in the face of our new networked society. Form is now conceptualized by architects, engineers, and artists as reflexive, contingent, and distributed. The collected essays in Network Practices capture this unique moment in the evolution of design, where crossing disciplines, spatial interactions, and design practices are all poised to be reimagined. With contributions by architects, artists, computer programmers, and theorists and texts by Reinhold Martin, Dagmar Richter, Michael Speaks, and others, Network Practices offers an interdisciplinary analysis of how art, science, and architecture are responding to rapidly changing mobile, wireless, and information-embedded environments.

About this title

About the Author:

Anthony Burke is a designer and assistant professor in architecture at the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently collaborating with the Intel Research Lab at Berkeley on projects in urban computing. Therese Tierney is a doctoral scholar at University of California Berkeley and visiting researcher at MIT's Media Lab. She is also the author of "Abstract Space: Beneath the Media Surface"(2007).

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1568987013
• ISBN 13: 9781568987019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Burke Anthony, Tierney Therese