UID:
kobvindex_INT0004035
Format:
x, 224 pages
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illustrations, plans
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20.5 x 14 cm
ISBN:
9780262534024
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0262534029
Series Statement:
Writing architecture
Content:
"Almost a generation ago, the early software for computer aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) spawned a style of smooth and curving lines and surfaces that gave visible form to the first digital age, and left an indelible mark on contemporary architecture. But today's digitally intelligent architecture no longer looks that way. In The Second Digital Turn, Mario Carpo explains that this is because the design professions are now coming to terms with a new kind of digital tools they have adopted -- no longer tools for making but tools for thinking. In the early 1990s the design professions were the first to intuit and interpret the new technical logic of the digital age: digital mass-customization (the use of digital tools to mass-produce variations at no extra cost) has already changed the way we produce and consume almost everything, and the same technology applied to commerce at large is now heralding a new society without scale -- a flat marginal cost society where bigger markets will not make anything cheaper."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: published in the Writing architecture series, a project of the Anyone Corporation, edited by Cynthia Davidson
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Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- THE SECOND DIGITAL TURN : Data-compression technologies we don't need anymore ; Don't sort : search ; The end of modern science ; The new science of form-searching ; Spline making, or the conquest of free form ; From calculus to computation : the rise and fall of the curve ; Excessive resolution ; The new frontier of alienation, and beyond -- THE END OF THE PROJECTED IMAGE : Verbal to visual ; Visual to spatial ; The technical and cognitive primacy of flatness in early modern art and science ; The underdogs : early alternatives to perspectival projections ; The digital renaissance of the third dimension -- THE PARTICIPATORY TURN THAT NEVER WAS : The new digital science of the many ; The style of many hands ; Building : digital agencies and their styles -- ECONOMIES WITHOUT SCALE : TOWARD A NONSTANDARD SOCIETY : Mass production, economies of scale, standardization ; The rise and fall of standard prices ; The digital mass-customization of social practices -- Postface : 2016 -- Notes -- Index
Language:
English
