Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level

Friedrich von Borries

ISBN 10: 376438414X / ISBN 13: 9783764384142

Published by Birkhäuser Architecture, 2007

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In a black soft cover with red and green titles to spine and front. 496 pp., extensively illustrated in colour.

The book is in very good condition. There is minor shelf-wear to the extremities of the cover. The binding is tight and the pages clean and unmarked.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Space Time Play: Computer Games, Architecture and Urbanism: The Next Level
• Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 376438414X
• ISBN 13: 9783764384142
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Dimensions: 171.45W x 241.3H x 31.75D millimeters 171.45 millimeters width by 241.3 millimeters height by 31.75 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1202 grams

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Synopsis

Computer and video games are leaving the PC and conquering the arena of everyday life in the form of mobile applications (such as GPS cell phones, etc.) – the result is new types of cities and architecture. How do these games alter our perception of real and virtual space? What can the designers of physical and digital worlds learn from one another? Space Time Play presents the following themes: the superimposition of computer games on real spaces and convergences of real and imaginary playspaces; computer and video games as practical planning instruments. With articles by Espen Aarseth, Ernest Adams, Richard A. Bartle, Ian Bogost, Gerhard M. Buurman, Edward Castranova, Kees Christiaanse, Drew Davidson, James Der Derian, Noah Falstein, Stephen Graham, Ludger Hovestadt, Henry Jenkins, Heather Kelley, James Korris, Julian Kücklich, Frank Lantz, Lev Manovich, Jane McGonigal, William J. Mitchell, Kas Oosterhuis, Katie Salen, Mark Wigley, and others.

Friedrich von Borries (b. 1974) is an architect. He has taught at the College of Fine Arts in Nürnberg and elsewhere.

Matthias Böttger (b. 1974) is an architect. He is codirector with Friedrich von Borries of space tactics, Agency for Spatial Enlightenment and Intervention in Berlin.

Steffen P. Walz (b. 1973) works at the ETH Zürich in the Department of Computer Aided Architectural Design. At the School of Art and Design Zurich Walz is cofounder of the BA program in Game Design.

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