TY  - BOOK
AU  - Poole,Matthew
AU  - Shvartzberg,Manuel
TI  - The politics of parametricism: digital technologies in architecture 
SN  - 9781472581662 (hardback)
AV  - NA2728 .P65 2015
U1  - 720.105 23
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Data processing
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Computer-aided design
KW  - Technological innovations
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Methods & Materials
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / General
KW  - DESIGN / History & Criticism
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Design / Product
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index; Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- Matthew Poole, Freelance Curator/Writer, UK and Manuel Shvartzberg, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA -- Section 1: Parametricism and Politics - Polemics -- 2. On Numbers, More or Less -- Reinhold Martin, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA -- 3. The Historical Pertinence of Parametricism: and the Prospect of a Free Market Urban Order -- Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK -- 4. There is No Such Thing as a Political Architecture; There is No Such Thing as Digital Architecture -- Neil Leach, USC School of Architecture, USA -- Section 2: Post-Humanist Critiques -- 5. Parametricist Architecture (Would be a Good Idea) -- Benjamin Bratton, University of California, San Diego, USA -- 6. 'Play Turtle, Do It Yourself': Flocks, Swarms, Schools, and the Political-Architectural Imaginary -- Manuel Shvartzberg, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA -- 7. Breeding Ideology: Parametricism and Biological Architecture -- Christina Cogdell, University of California, Davis, USA -- Section 3: Techniques of (Socio-Spatio-Political) Representation -- 8. Speculation, Presumption and Assumption: The Ideology of Algebraic-to-Parametric Workspace -- Matthew Poole, Freelance Curator/Writer, UK -- 9. Undelete: Recreating Uncensored Archives -- Laura Kurgan, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA -- 10. Architecture as Disputing Calculations: Notes for a Pragmatic Reframing of Parametricism and Architecture -- Andres Jaque, Andres Jaque Architects: Office for Political Innovation, Spain -- Section 4: The Figure of the Practicing Architect -- 11. Parametric Schizophrenia -- Peggy Deamer, Yale School of Architecture, USA -- 12. The Architecture of Neoliberalism -- Teddy Cruz, University of California, Davis, USA -- 13. Parameter Value -- Phillip G. Bernstein, Autodesk, USA -- 14. Spinoza's Geometric and Ecological Ratios -- Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK -- Index
ER  -