New Wombs - Electric Bodies and Architectural Disorder [Paperback]

Maria Luisa Palumbo (Author), Lucinda Byatt (Translator)

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Publication Date: August 1, 2000 | Series: The Information Technology Revolution in Architecture

A sense of harmony and proportion has traditionally been achieved in architectural compositions by using the dimensions of the human body as the starting point. Modern technology now enables us to go beyond these physical dimensions into a virtual world, and this poses a challenge to architecture as we usually perceive it. Interactive, flexible and intelligent models are being called for. Whilst technology is taking us into the realms of virtual reality, architecture on the other hand, is becoming more corporeal. "Postorganic" is the term being used to express this merging of the body and architecture brought about by electronic media. A radical change in perspective is blurring the distinction between the organic and mechanic, and the artificial logic of the computer and the natural logic of man are fusing together

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

About the Author

Maria Luisa Palumbo works at the Mcluhan Programm in Culture and Technology.

Product Details

Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Birkh�user Basel; 1 edition (August 1, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3764362944
ISBN-13: 978-3764362942
Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 4.8 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 6.2 ounces
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In the third book of de Architettura, dedicated to the sacred architecture of temples, Vitruvius starts by describing the proportions of the human figure as the model for architectonic proportions. Read the first page

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media universe, visceral nature, architectural research

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Peter Cook, Endless House, Fresh Water Pavilion, Lebbeus Woods, Nox Architects, Zaha Hadid

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This book cites 22 books:

The Architecture Machine: Toward a More Human Environment by Nicholas Negroponte on page 66, and Back Matter
The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud on page 16
The Analysis of Beauty (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in Britis) by William Hogarth on page 12
Margins of Philosophy by Jacques Derrida in Back Matter
Green Architecture (Midsize) by James Wines in Back Matter

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