Natural Born Caadesigners: Young American Architects (The It Revolution in Architecture) [Hardcover]

Christian Pongratz (Author), Maria Rita Perbellini (Author)

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Series: The It Revolution in Architecture | Publication Date: May 2000

In the USA the generation of 30-40 year old architects has a number of remarkable achievements to show for itself. Although this generation encompasses a broad spectrum of architectural genres, it is clear that there is one common factor which differentiates them from the previous generation: they were literally born with the computer. This book reports on how this new tool has influenced and affected the quality of designing, looking at the most interesting protagonists of the electronic generation together with their most important projects. The authors live in New York and are themselves active in this field

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Hardcover
Publisher: Birkhauser (Architectural) (May 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0817662464
ISBN-13: 978-0817662462

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A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
Natural Born Killers: Tie-In by John August on page 1
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf in Back Matter
Gyroscopic Horizons by Neil Denari in Back Matter
Columbia Documents of Architecture by Columbia University in Back Matter

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