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Machine Landscapes

Author : Liam Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119453011
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Machine Landscapes written by Liam Young and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-02-11 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised agriculture that define the very nature of who we are today are at the same time places we can never visit. Instead they are occupied by server stacks and hard drives, logistics bots and mobile shelving units, autonomous cranes and container ships, robot vacuum cleaners and internet-connected toasters, driverless tractors and taxis. This issue is an atlas of sites, architectures and infrastructures that are not built for us, but whose form, materiality and purpose is configured to anticipate the patterns of machine vision and habitation rather than our own. We are said to be living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which humans are the dominant force shaping the planet. This collection of spaces, however, more accurately constitutes an era of the Post-Anthropocene, a period where it is technology and artificial intelligence that now computes, conditions and constructs our world. Marking the end of human-centred design, the issue turns its attention to the new typologies of the post-human, architecture without people and our endless expanse of Machine Landscapes. Contributors: Rem Koolhaas, Merve Bedir and Jason Hilgefort, Benjamin H Bratton, Ingrid Burrington, Ian Cheng, Cathryn Dwyre, Chris Perry, David Salomon and Kathy Velikov, John Gerrard, Alice Gorman, Adam Harvey, Jesse LeCavalier, Xingzhe Liu, Clare Lyster, Geoff Manaugh, Tim Maughan, Simone C Niquille, Jenny Odell, Trevor Paglen, Ben Roberts. Featured interviews: Deborah Harrison, designer of Microsoft’s Cortana; and Paul Inglis, designer of the urban landscapes of Blade Runner 2049.

What Is Architecture?

Author : Paul Shepheard
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262314398
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book What Is Architecture? written by Paul Shepheard and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-03-25 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: British architect and critic Paul Shepheard is a fresh new voice in current postmodern debates about the history and meaning of architecture. In this wonderfully unorthodox quasi-novelistic essay, complete with characters and dialogue (but no plot), Shepheard draws a boundary around the subject of architecture, describing its place in art and technology, its place in history, and its place in our lives now. At a time when it is fashionable to say that architecture is everything—from philosophy to science to art to theory—Shepheard boldly and irreverently sets limits to the subject, so that we may talk about architecture for what it is. He takes strong positions, names the causes of the problems, and tells us how bad things are and how they can get better. Along the way he marshals some unlikely but plausible witnesses who testify about the current state of architecture. Instead of the usual claims or complaints by the usual suspects, these observations are of an altogether different order. Constructed as a series of fables, many of them politically incorrect, What is Architecture? is a refreshing meditation on the options, hopes, possibilities, and failures of shelter in society.

Fabric Landscapes by Machine

Author : Linda Crone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780873418362
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Fabric Landscapes by Machine written by Linda Crone and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sew beautiful landscapes for home decor and wearables.

Architectural Intelligence

Author : Molly Wright Steenson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262546787
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Architectural Intelligence written by Molly Wright Steenson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architects who engaged with cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies poured the foundation for digital interactivity. In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity into their work. Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Architecture Machine Group all incorporated technologies—including cybernetics and artificial intelligence—into their work and influenced digital design practices from the late 1980s to the present day. Alexander, long before his famous 1977 book A Pattern Language, used computation and structure to visualize design problems; Wurman popularized the notion of “information architecture”; Price designed some of the first intelligent buildings; and Negroponte experimented with the ways people experience artificial intelligence, even at architectural scale. Steenson investigates how these architects pushed the boundaries of architecture—and how their technological experiments pushed the boundaries of technology. What did computational, cybernetic, and artificial intelligence researchers have to gain by engaging with architects and architectural problems? And what was this new space that emerged within these collaborations? At times, Steenson writes, the architects in this book characterized themselves as anti-architects and their work as anti-architecture. The projects Steenson examines mostly did not result in constructed buildings, but rather in design processes and tools, computer programs, interfaces, digital environments. Alexander, Wurman, Price, and Negroponte laid the foundation for many of our contemporary interactive practices, from information architecture to interaction design, from machine learning to smart cities.

Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems

Author : John M. Flach
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351444654
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems written by John M. Flach and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a viable alternative, presenting a richer view of human behavior that is holistic and contextualized. The papers presented in these two volumes show the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. It is the first collection of papers that explicitly draws a connection between these two fields. While work in this area is only just beginning, the evidence available suggests that taking an ecological approach to human factors/ergonomics helps bridge the existing gap between basic research and applied problems.

Quilted Landscapes

Author : Joan Blalock
Publisher : Martingale
ISBN 13 : 9781564771445
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Quilted Landscapes written by Joan Blalock and published by Martingale. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designing a quilt - Supplies and materials - Basic methods - Embellishments.

Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography

Author : Edward Relph
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317373669
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography written by Edward Relph and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1981, explores why it is that the modern built environment, while successfully providing material comfort and technical efficiency, none the less breeds despair and depression rather than inspires hope and commitment. The source of this paradox, where material benefits appear to have been gained only at the expense of intangible values and qualities is found in humanism, the persistent and powerful belief that all problems can be solved through the use of human reason. But humanism has become increasingly confused, rationalistic, callously devoted to efficiency, and authoritarian. These confusions and contradictions, together with the anti-nature stance of humanism and its failure to teach humane behaviour, lead the author to conclude that humanism is best rejected. Such rejection does not advocate the inhuman and anti-human, but requires instead a return to the ‘humility’ that lies at the origin of humanism – a respect for objects, creatures, environments and people. This ‘environmental humility’ is explored in the context of individuality of settings, ways of seeing landscapes, appropriation and ways of building places. This title will be of interest to students of human geography.

Planet City

Author : Liam Young
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780648685876
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (858 download)

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Download or read book Planet City written by Liam Young and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planet City is a speculation of what might happen if the world collapsed into a new home for 10 billion people, allowing the rest of the world to return to a global wilderness. It is both an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent examination of the environmental questions that face us today.

The Perception Machine

Author : Joanna Zylinska
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262376628
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book The Perception Machine written by Joanna Zylinska and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. We are constantly photographing and being photographed while feeding machine learning databases with our data, which in turn is used to generate new images. Analyzing the transformation of photography by computation—and the transformation of human perception by algorithmically driven images, from CGI to AI—The Perception Machine investigates what it means for us to live surrounded by image flows and machine eyes. In an astute and engaging argument, Joanna Zylinska brings together media theory and neuroscience in a Vilém Flusser–Paul Virilio remix. Her “perception machine” names a technical universe of images and their infrastructures. But it also refers to a sociopolitical condition resulting from today’s automation of vision, imaging—and imagination. Written by a theorist-practitioner, the book incorporates Zylinska’s own art projects, some of which have been co-created with AI. The photographs, collages, films, and installations available as part of the book (and its companion website) provide a different mode of thinking about our technological futures, at a local as well as a planetary level. Offering provocative concepts such as eco-eco-punk, AUTO-FOTO-KINO, planetary micro-vision, loser images, and sensography, the book outlines an existential philosophy of messy media for a time when our practices of imaging and self-imaging are being radically redesigned. Importantly, it also offers a new vision of our future.

Luscious Landscapes

Author : Joyce R. Becker
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781571201942
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Luscious Landscapes written by Joyce R. Becker and published by C&T Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Landscapes

Author : Virginia A. Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780021753802
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (538 download)

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Download or read book Landscapes written by Virginia A. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Responsive Landscapes

Author : Bradley E Cantrell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317634055
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book Responsive Landscapes written by Bradley E Cantrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensing, processing, and visualizing that are currently in development within the environment boldly change the ways design and maintenance of landscapes are perceived and conceptualised. This is the first book to rationalize interactive architecture and responsive technologies through the lens of contemporary landscape architectural theory. Responsive Landscapes frames a comprehensive view of design projects using responsive technologies and their relationship to landscape and environmental space. Divided into six insightful sections, the book frames the projects through the terms; elucidate, compress, displace, connect, ambient, and modify to present and construct a pragmatic framework in which to approach the integration of responsive technologies into landscape architecture. Complete with international case studies, the book explores the various approaches taken to utilise responsive technologies in current professional practice. This will serve as a reference for professionals, and academics looking to push the boundaries of landscape projects and seek inspiration for their design proposals.

Alien Landscapes

Author : Robert Holdstock
Publisher : Mayflower Assoc
ISBN 13 : 9780831702854
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Alien Landscapes written by Robert Holdstock and published by Mayflower Assoc. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wild imaginings of ten science fiction authors are brought to life through color illustrations of artificial worlds, alien earths, planetary cities, and mysterious civilizations

Little Machinery

Author : Mary Liddell
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814332665
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (326 download)

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Download or read book Little Machinery written by Mary Liddell and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated edition that situates a landmark 1920s children's picture book in its historical and social context.

Italian Cities and Landscapes

Author : William H. Fain
Publisher : Balcony Press
ISBN 13 : 9781890449322
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (493 download)

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Download or read book Italian Cities and Landscapes written by William H. Fain and published by Balcony Press. This book was released on 2007-09-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of digital cameras and computer renderings, the tradition of drawing and assembling an architectural sketchbook seems at once either willfully eccentric and or charmingly retrograde. But its profound importance to architecture and urban planning endures. Italian Cities and Landscapes is a compact and lovely sketch book created by architect William H. Fain during a six month fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Exploring the Italian city and countryside by bicycle, Fain used colored pencil to sketch scenes of the street life, the magnificent landscapes, and the architectural marvels of Italy. Italian Cities and Landscapes shows that for the creative individual, documenting travels through drawing continues to be a valuable means of learning to see, understand, and design.

Creative Haven Insanely Intricate Entangled Landscapes Coloring Book

Author : Angela Porter
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
ISBN 13 : 0486806987
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (868 download)

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Download or read book Creative Haven Insanely Intricate Entangled Landscapes Coloring Book written by Angela Porter and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Picture yourself in a panorama of giant flowers, mushroom-shaped houses, grinning suns and snoozing moons, with spaceships soaring between the stars. Thirty-one detailed scenes of fantasy landscapes offer scope for imagination.

Landscapes: Workbook, teacher's ed

Author : Virginia A. Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscapes: Workbook, teacher's ed written by Virginia A. Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a Form A and From B Unit Test for each unit in CONNECTIONS. This Teacher's Manual includes instruction for administering and scoring the CONNECTIONS Unit Test for Grade 5.