Code: Between Operation and Narration (Context Architecture) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3034601174 ISBN 13: 9783034601177

Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture, 2010

Synopsis

The process of coding is a systematic experimentation with signs, symbols, and the construction of larger cultural meanings. The fourth volume in the series Kontext Architektur examines the architectural-historical and -theoretical relevance of the concept of "code" from various perspectives. The authors and editors start from the premise that this concept makes for new ways of translating architecture into language. Thus, the dominance of computer simulation makes it clear that the building is no longer merely a vehicle for signs, but literally also their product. The code has penetrated, as it were, from the exterior of the building into its interior, into its structure. We are dealing with both a socio-cultural as well as with a mathematical and formal notion of code. The goal of this book is thus to arrive at a critical grasp of the contours of this vibrant conceptual tension between the cultural and the formal, the "outside" and the "inside," while also formulating questions for further exploration that are relevant for architecture.

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About the Authors

Andrea Gleiniger, Dr. phil., Kunst- und Architekturhistorikerin, lehrt und forscht an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

Georg Vrachliotis, Architekt und Architekturtheoretiker, lehrt und forscht am Departement Architektur, Professur für Computer-Aided Architectural Design, der ETH Zürich.

Andrea Gleiniger, Dr. phil., is an art and architectural historian; she teaches and does research at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (Zurich University of the Arts).

Georg Vrachliotis is an architect and architectural theorist; he teaches and does research at the Chair for Computer-Aided Architectural Design in the Architecture Department of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich).

Edition details

• Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034601174
• ISBN 13: 9783034601177
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 120
• Editor: Gleiniger Andrea, Vrachliotis Georg