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Subject(s)

• Architectural design—Data processing [Browse]
• Architecture—Computer-aided design [Browse]
• Architecture—Technological innovations [Browse]

Editor

• Poole, Matthew [Browse]
• Shvartzberg, Manuel [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-244) and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• Matthew Poole, Freelance Curator/Writer, UK and Manuel Shvartzberg, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA
• Section 1: Parametricism and Politics
• Polemics
• 2. On Numbers, More or Less
• Reinhold Martin, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA
• 3. The Historical Pertinence of Parametricism: and the Prospect of a Free Market Urban Order
• Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK
• 4. There is No Such Thing as a Political Architecture; There is No Such Thing as Digital Architecture
• Neil Leach, USC School of Architecture, USA
• Section 2: Post-Humanist Critiques
• 5. Parametricist Architecture (Would be a Good Idea)
• Benjamin Bratton, University of California, San Diego, USA
• 6. 'Play Turtle, Do It Yourself': Flocks, Swarms, Schools, and the Political-Architectural Imaginary
• Manuel Shvartzberg, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA
• 7. Breeding Ideology: Parametricism and Biological Architecture
• Christina Cogdell, University of California, Davis, USA
• Section 3: Techniques of (Socio-Spatio-Political) Representation
• 8. Speculation, Presumption and Assumption: The Ideology of Algebraic-to-Parametric Workspace
• Matthew Poole, Freelance Curator/Writer, UK
• 9. Undelete: Recreating Uncensored Archives
• Laura Kurgan, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA
• 10. Architecture as Disputing Calculations: Notes for a Pragmatic Reframing of Parametricism and Architecture
• Andres Jaque, Andres Jaque Architects: Office for Political Innovation, Spain
• Section 4: The Figure of the Practicing Architect
• 11. Parametric Schizophrenia
• Peggy Deamer, Yale School of Architecture, USA
• 12. The Architecture of Neoliberalism
• Teddy Cruz, University of California, Davis, USA
• 13. Parameter Value
• Phillip G. Bernstein, Autodesk, USA
• 14. Spinoza's Geometric and Ecological Ratios
• Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9781472581662 (hardback)
• 1472581660 (hardback)
• 9781472581655 (paperback)
• 1472581652 (paperback)

LCCN

2015008299

OCLC

894026145

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