Plottegg – Architecture Beyond Inclusion and Identity is Exclusion and Difference from Art
Plottegg – Architecture Beyond Inclusion and Identity is Exclusion and Difference from Art

Author: Manfred Wolff-Plottegg

Publisher: Birkhäuser

Published: 2015-11-27

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 3035607427

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Plottegg is one of Austria's most high-profile avant-garde architects. He has been pioneering the use of the computer since the 1980s. However, using the technology purely as an electronic drawing board is not enough for him - programs are intended to generate solutions. The works selected for this publication therefore represent the architect's design concepts and working methods rather than solutions for building projects. The projects are primarily presented in the form of images; descriptions, data and comments have been reduced to the minimum possible. To that extent, this book is also a visual supplement to his essays published up to now. This first monograph on Plottegg's built and planned architecture closes a gap in the documentation of innovative Austrian architects.

Giving Bodies Back to Data
Giving Bodies Back to Data

Author: Silvia Casini

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-08-03

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0262362201

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An examination of the bodily, situated aspects of data-visualization work, looking at visualization practices around the development of MRI technology. Our bodies are scanned, probed, imaged, sampled, and transformed into data by clinicians and technologists. In this book, Silvia Casini reveals the affective relations and materiality that turn data into image--and in so doing, gives bodies back to data. Opening the black box of MRI technology, Casini examines the bodily, situated aspects of visualization practices around the development of this technology. Reframing existing narratives of biomedical innovation, she emphasizes the important but often overlooked roles played by aesthetics, affectivity, and craft practice in medical visualization. Combining history, theory, laboratory ethnography, archival research, and collaborative art-science, Casini retrieves the multiple presences and agencies of bodies in data visualization, mapping the traces of scientists' body work and embodied imagination. She presents an in-depth ethnographic study of MRI development at the University of Aberdeen's biomedical physics laboratory, from the construction of the first whole-body scanner for clinical purposes through the evolution of the FFC-MRI. Going beyond her original focus on MRI, she analyzes a selection of neuroscience- or biomedicine-inspired interventions by artists in media ranging from sculpture to virtual reality. Finally, she presents a methodology for designing and carrying out small-scale art-science projects, describing a collaboration that she herself arranged, highlighting the relational and aesthetic-laden character of data that are the product of craftsmanship and affective labor at the laboratory bench.

Plottegg – Architecture Beyond Inclusion and Identity is Exclusion and Difference from Art
Plottegg – Architecture Beyond Inclusion and Identity is Exclusion and Difference from Art

Author: Manfred Wolff-Plottegg

Publisher: Birkhauser

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783035607338

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Plottegg ist einer der profiliertesten Avantgarde-Architekten Osterreichs. Als Pionier setzte er den Computer fur den architektonischen Entwurf ab den 1980er Jahren ein. Die Verwendung als elektronisches Reissbrett ist ihm zu wenig, er thematisiert den Code, Programme sollen Losungen generieren. Diese erste Monographie ist ein visueller Katalog gebauter und projektierter Architektur, komplementar zu seinen Texten, die online abrufbar sind. "

Architecture Unbound
Architecture Unbound

Author: Joseph Giovannini

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2021-11-30

Total Pages: 834

ISBN-13: 0847858790

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Examines the influence of twentieth-century avant-garde movements on the contemporary architectural landscape through the work of “disruptors” such as Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, and Zaha Hadid. With an irregular format designed by celebrated graphic designer Abbott Miller of Pentagram. In Architecture Unbound, noted architecture critic Joseph Giovannini proposes that our current architectural landscape ultimately emerged from transgressive and progressive art movements that had roiled Europe before and after World War I. By the 1960s, social unrest and cultural disruption opened the way for investigations into an inventive, antiauthoritarian architecture. Explorations emerged in the 1970s, and built projects surfaced in the 1980s, taking digital form in the 1990s, with large-scale projects finally landing on the far side of the millennium. Architecture Unbound traces all of these developments and influences, presenting an authoritative and illuminating history not only of the sources of contemporary currents in architecture but also of the twentieth-century avant-garde and the twenty-first-century digital revolution in form-making, and profiling the most influential practitioners and their most notable projects, including Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Bilbao and Walt Disney Concert Hall, Zaha Hadid’s Guangzhou Opera House, Daniel Libeskind’s master plan for the World Trade Center, Rem Koolhaas’s CCTV Tower, and Herzog and de Meuron’s Bird’s Nest Olympic Stadium in Beijing.

Hans Kupelwieser
Hans Kupelwieser

Author: Hans Kupelwieser

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13:

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Alongside Erwin Wurm and Franz West, Hans Kupelwieser (born in 1948 in Lunz) occupies a third independent position in contemporary Austrian sculpture that represents a significant step forward in the development of a Postmodern concept of sculpture. Kupelwieser has always sought new materials which he uses in the manner of Arte Povera but also in a kind of linguistic approach in which he explores new meanings associated with these materials. A flat rubber or a massive steel sculpture in which letters have been punched to create openings serve, for example, as a windscreen and thus assume an entirely new function. This interplay of material extension and operational expansion between form and function is the fertile ground of Hans Kupelwieser's analytical explorations. Presenting numerous large illustrations, the book offers an overview of the sculptor's current work as well as several important reference works from early periods. Attention is also given to his photographic oeuvre, an equally important part of his work that relates closely to his sculpture. Exhibition schedule: Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, May 8 - June 20, 2004

Understanding Emotion at Work
Understanding Emotion at Work

Author: Stephen Fineman

Publisher: SAGE

Published: 2003-05-27

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 9780761947905

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Getting to the heart of what binds and breaks organizations: emotion, Stephen Fineman explores beyond the surface of work to the rich emotional life bubbling underneath, showing what employees and managers constantly deal with but are often ill-equipped to do so.

Negative Space
Negative Space

Author: Peter Weibel

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-12-28

Total Pages: 705

ISBN-13: 0262044862

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A bold new spatial perspective on modern sculpture, with 800 color images of work by artists including Henry Moore, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, and Ana Mendieta. This monumental, richly illustrated volume from ZKM | Karlsruhe approaches modern sculpture from a spatial perspective, interpreting it though contour, emptiness, and levitation rather than the conventional categories of unbroken volume, mass, and gravity. It examines works by dozens of twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists, including Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Lygia Clark, Anish Kapoor, Olafur Eliasson, Ana Mendieta, Fujiko Nakaya, Tomás Saraceno, and Alicja Kwade. The large-scale book contains over 800 color images. Negative Space comes out of an epic exhibition at ZKM, and volume editor Peter Weibel (Chairman and CEO of ZKM) takes a curatorial approach to the topic. The last exhibition to deal comprehensively with the question “What is modern sculpture?” was at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1986. Weibel and ZKM pick up where the Pompidou left off, examining sculptures not as figurative, solid, and self-contained monoliths but in terms of open and hollow spaces; reflection, light, shadow; innovative materials; data; and the moving image. Weibel puts advances in science, architecture, and mathematics in the context of avant-garde sensibilities to show how modern sculpture significantly deviates from the work of the past. Texts in the volume include an introduction and twelve chapters written by Weibel with contributions by cocurators as well as facsimiles and reproductions of artist-authored manifestos.

Technological Nature
Technological Nature

Author: Peter H. Kahn, Jr.

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2011-02-25

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0262294834

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Why it matters that our relationship with nature is increasingly mediated and augmented by technology. Our forebears may have had a close connection with the natural world, but increasingly we experience technological nature. Children come of age watching digital nature programs on television. They inhabit virtual lands in digital games. And they play with robotic animals, purchased at big box stores. Until a few years ago, hunters could "telehunt"—shoot and kill animals in Texas from a computer anywhere in the world via a Web interface. Does it matter that much of our experience with nature is mediated and augmented by technology? In Technological Nature, Peter Kahn argues that it does, and shows how it affects our well-being. Kahn describes his investigations of children's and adults' experiences of cutting-edge technological nature. He and his team installed "technological nature windows" (50-inch plasma screens showing high-definition broadcasts of real-time local nature views) in inside offices on his university campus and assessed the physiological and psychological effects on viewers. He studied children's and adults' relationships with the robotic dog AIBO (including possible benefits for children with autism). And he studied online "telegardening" (a pastoral alternative to "telehunting"). Kahn's studies show that in terms of human well-being technological nature is better than no nature, but not as good as actual nature. We should develop and use technological nature as a bonus on life, not as its substitute, and re-envision what is beautiful and fulfilling and often wild in essence in our relationship with the natural world.

Powerskin Conference
Powerskin Conference

Author: Thomas Auer

Publisher:

Published: 2016-12-28

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9789492516299

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The PowerSkin Conference aims to address the role of building skinsto accomplish a carbon neutral building stock. Topics such as buildingoperation, embodied energy, energy generation and storage in context offacades, structure and environment are considered."