Builders of the vision software and the imagination of design
Builders of the Vision traces the intellectual history and contemporary practices of Computer-Aided Design since the years following World War II until today. Drawing from primary archival and ethnographic sources, it identifies the crucial moments shaping digital design technologies since the first...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York, NY
Routledge
[2015]
|
| Subjects: | |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Seeing Software as a Cultural Infrastructure
- 2. Codification Before Software: Architectural Inscriptions and the Design-Construction Split
- 3. Software Comes to Matter: Encoding Geometry, Materials and Machines
- 4. Perfect Slaves and Cooperative Partners: Steven A. Coons and Computers' New Role in Design
- 5. Computer-Aided Revolutions: CAD Experimentalism, Participation and Representation in the Architecture Machine
- 6. Visions of Design: Software Stories About Design, Creativity and Control
- 7. The Architect's Bargain: Building the 'Bilbao Effect' in the Abu Dhabi Desert
- 8. Contesting the Infrastructure: Resistance Against and Re-Appropriation of a Digital Model
- 9. Rethinking Redundancy: Parametrics of Trust-Building in Digital Practice