This visually stunning, conceptually richВ and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions of what the architectural image means today.
Within the book's visually imaginative design framework, Abstract Space engages discourses from architecture, visual and cultural studies to computer science and communications technology to presentВ an in-depth multi-media case study. Tracing a provisional history of the topic, the book also lends a provocative and multivalent understanding to the complex relations affecting the architectural image today.
Author(s): Therese Tierney
Edition: 1st
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2007
Language: English
Commentary: 73424
Pages: 196
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgements......Page 7
Introduction......Page 8
1 Architecture + abstraction: Topologies of new media......Page 14
2 Architectural modes of seeing: Visual theory and technologies......Page 34
3 Formulating abstraction: Conceptual art and the architectural object......Page 52
4 Mapping absence: Architectural contingencies......Page 78
5 Generative systems: Evolving computational strategies......Page 104
6 Formal matters: The virtual as a generative process......Page 134
7 The status of the architectural image......Page 158
Notes......Page 169
Illustration credits......Page 179
Bibliography......Page 183
Index......Page 189
