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Prof. Neil Leach (Editor)

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Publication Date: March 29, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0470844191 | ISBN-13: 978-0470844199 | Edition: 1

Digital technologies are changing the way that we live and work today. But what impact are they having on the discipline of architecture?
This volume brings together some of the world's leading voices from digital theory, technology and design to address this question. With a discussion ranging from broad cultural concerns to new techniques of construction, Designing for a Digital World offers a snapshot of informed opinion at a crucial juncture in the history of the discipline.
Contributors:
Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos (UN Studio)
Sarah Chaplin
Karl S Chu (Metaxy)
Richard Coyne
Manuel DeLanda
Andrew Gillespie
Mark Goulthorpe (dECOi)
Marcelyn Gow
Jeffrey Inaba (AMO)
Neil Leach
William J Mitchell
Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera Polo (Foreign Office Architects)
Sadie Plant
Hani Rashid (Asymptote)
Douglas Rushkoff
Patrik Schumacher
Lars Spuybroek (NOX)
Sherry Turkle
David Turnbull (ATOPIA)
Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler and Andreas Broeckmann (Knowbotic Research)
Slavoj Zizek

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This volume brings together some of the world's leading voices from digital theory, technology and design to address this question. With a discussion ranging from broad cultural concerns to new techniques of construction, Designing for a Digital World offers a snapshot of informed opinion at a crucial juncture in the history of the discipline.
Contributors:
Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos (UN Studio)
Sarah Chaplin
Karl S Chu (Metaxy)
Richard Coyne
Manuel DeLanda
Andrew Gillespie
Mark Goulthorpe (dECOi)
Marcelyn Gow
Jeffrey Inaba (AMO)
Neil Leach
William J Mitchell
Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera Polo (Foreign Office Architects)
Sadie Plant
Hani Rashid (Asymptote)
Douglas Rushkoff
Patrik Schumacher
Lars Spuybroek (NOX)
Sherry Turkle
David Turnbull (ATOPIA)
Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler and Andreas Broeckmann (Knowbotic Research)
Slavoj Zizek

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Digital technologies are changing the way that we live and work today. But what impact are they having on the discipline of architecture?

This volume brings together some of the world's leading voices from digital theory, technology and design to address this question. With a discussion ranging from broad cultural concerns to new techniques of construction, Designing for a Digital World offers a snapshot of informed opinion at a crucial juncture in the history of the discipline.

Contributors:
Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos (UN Studio)
Sarah Chaplin
Karl S Chu (Metaxy)
Richard Coyne
Manuel DeLanda
Andrew Gillespie
Mark Goulthorpe (dECOi)
Marcelyn Gow
Jeffrey Inaba (AMO)
Neil Leach
William J Mitchell
Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera Polo (Foreign Office Architects)
Sadie Plant
Hani Rashid (Asymptote)
Douglas Rushkoff
Patrik Schumacher
Lars Spuybroek (NOX)
Sherry Turkle
David Turnbull (ATOPIA)
Yvonne Wilhelm, Christian Huebler and Andreas Broeckmann (Knowbotic Research)
Slavoj Zizek

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Paperback: 144 pages
Publisher: Academy Press; 1 edition (March 29, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0470844191
ISBN-13: 978-0470844199
Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.4 x 0.5 inches
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This volume attempts to address a new paradigm, a condition in which digital technologies have started to have a significant impact on the ways in which we live and work. Read the first page

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transversal folds, symbolic bliss, churn costs, interactive costs, machinic processes, smectic state, digital lifestyles, second order meanings, mimetic impulse, digital realm, bad infinity, transversal sections

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New York, Sao Paulo, Fairfax County, Knowbotic Research, Sherry Turkle, Neil Leach, Columbia University, Learning Environments, Los Angeles, Marcelyn Gow, Port Terminal, Sarah Chaplin, Walter Benjamin, Dot-com World, Douglas Rushkoff, Hyperzoic Paradigm, Lars Spuybroek, Venice Biennale, Big Brother, Donna Haraway, Empire State Building, Foreign Office Architects, Fredric Jameson, Hani Rashid, Information Capital

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The Principle of Hope: Three-volume set (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Ernst Bloch on page 46, and page 48
Zeros and Ones by Sadie Plant on page 48, and page 144
The Anaesthetics of Architecture by Neil Leach on page 14, and page 30

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