UID:
kobvindex_INTEBC5633651
Format:
1 online resource (228 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781350011335
Note:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- Preface -- 1. Life as You Don't Know It -- 1.1 Prototyping life -- 1.2 Beyond the bête machine -- 1.3 Replaying the tape of life -- 1.4 Parallel worlds -- 1.5 Nature of matter -- 1.6 Mineral sensibilities -- 1.7 Origin of life -- 1.8 Biogenesis and vivogenesis -- 1.9 Dissipative life -- 1.10 Dissipative adaptation -- 1.11 Phantasmagoria of life -- 1.12 Life as material subversion -- 1.13 Subnatures -- 1.14 Chicken and egg: The paradox of lively matter -- 1.15 Worlding -- 2. Experimental and Soft Living Architecture -- 2.1 Experimental architecture -- 2.1.1 Twenty-first-century experimental architecture -- 2.2 Soft living architecture -- 2.2.1 The character of 'life' in soft living architecture -- 2.2.2 Soft living architecture: Examples -- 2.2.3 Soft living architecture: Body -- 2.3 Storytelling -- 2.4 Ambient poetics -- 3. World in Meltdown -- 3.1 End of Utopia -- 3.2 The Tower of Babel -- 3.3 Babelsphere -- 3.4 The changing character of nature -- 3.5 Nature of nature -- 3.6 Venetian nature -- 3.7 The gluttony of death -- 3.8 Breaking up -- 3.9 Design and death -- 3.10 Urban (Terra)toma -- 3.11 Insurrection and death -- 3.12 Sewage -- 4. Synthesis: Entangled Materials, Tools and Methods -- 4.1 Nature as technology -- 4.2 Modes of computation -- 4.2.1 Computing with humans -- 4.2.2 Natural computing -- 4.2.3 Dissipative structures -- 4.2.4 Consciousness and living materials -- 4.3 Softness -- 4.4 Making soils -- 4.5 Liquid soils -- 4.6 Ice computer -- 4.7 Aeroso(i)ls -- 5. Embracing Change -- 5.1 Choreography -- 5.2 Evaluation -- 5.3 Alternative impacts -- 5.4 Alternative methodologies -- 5.5 Alternative experiments -- 5.6 Fertility as value -- 5.7 Alternative architectures -- 5.8 Parallel apparatuses -- 5.9 Alternative roles for architects
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6. Laboratories and Convergences -- 6.1 Babel fish -- 6.2 The soft city of Venice -- 6.3 Living stones of Venice -- 6.4 Automatic Venetian chess -- 6.5 Invisibility -- 6.6 The invisible laboratory: An alternative synthetic platform -- 6.7 Ectoplasms -- 6.8 Jellyfish -- 6.9 Sensible apparatuses -- 6.10 Lost music: Antonio Vivaldi -- 6.11 Channelling and knotting -- 6.12 Phantasmagorical laboratory -- 6.13 Immersive sensible kaleidoscope -- 7. Prototyping Practices -- 7.1 Parallel beauty -- 7.2 Parallel soils -- 7.3 Golem -- 7.4 Weeki Wachee maids -- 7.5 Witch bottles -- 7.6 Gog and Magog -- 7.7 Sound walk -- 7.8 Land and community -- 7.9 Mirror puddle -- 7.10 Doggerland: Uncertainty, prophecy and the near-shore experience -- 7.11 Babel chandelier -- 7.12 Corresponding with the cosmos -- 8. Projects -- 8.1 Living Architecture -- 8.1.1 Microbial fuel cell -- 8.1.2 Photobioreactor -- 8.1.3 Synthetic bioreactor -- 8.1.4 Integration and uses -- 8.2 Diversifying bricks -- 8.2.1 Soft brick -- 8.2.2 Embryological brick -- 8.2.3 Lamprey shoe: Blood bank -- 8.3 Programmable bricks -- 8.3.1 Living brick for Venice -- 8.3.2 Titrating tensions: Hips and teeth -- 8.4 Transfiguring Venice -- 8.4.1 City of soft living architecture -- 8.5 Future Venice -- 8.5.1 Protocell city -- 8.5.2 Future Venice II -- 8.5.3 Melma Verde: Island of useless things -- 8.6 Living walls -- 9. Performances -- 9.1 Persephone: Constructing the Babelsphere -- 9.2 Persephone: Worlding instrument -- 9.3 Persephone: The Temptations of the Non-linear Ladder -- 9.4 Persephone: The Capsule of Crossed Destinies (the Hanged Man) -- 9.4.1 Introduction -- 9.4.2 Biospherical bottle -- 9.4.3 The Hanged Man -- 9.4.4 Knitted fetish -- 9.4.5 Fibonacci -- 9.5 Babelsphere: Inhabiting a world in meltdown (Radical Circus) -- Epilogue -- Glossary -- References -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Armstrong, Rachel Soft Living Architecture London : Bloomsbury Publishing USA,c2018 ISBN 9781350011359
Language:
English
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