Cybernetic architectures : informational thinking and digital design /: informational thinking and digital design. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Camilo Andrés Cifuentes Quin.
• Authors: Cifuentes Quin, Camilo Andrés
• Contents: Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. Introduction The informational view Information, feedback and entropy The triangulation effect The triangulation effect in digital architecture Digital architecture as a seriation Chapter Outline Notes Bibliography Chapter 2. Cybernetics and the architecture of performance The performative turn in digital architecture The cybernetics of Performance Design The performativity of digital architecture Performative tools, buildings and users Notes Bibliography Chapter 3. Architectural Systems General Systems Theory Organization, totality and teleology The isomorphism and the unity of science The systems view of the world The cybernetics of the systems view The systems view in architecture The autonomy of architecture Biology as a model Notes Bibliography Chapter 4. Genetic Mechanisms Informational thinking, informatics and biology From the genetic code to bioinformatics Towards a genetic architecture The utopic turn of genetic architecture The genetic view and the ontologization of information Notes Bibliography Chapter 5. Complex Phenomena Complexity thinking Complex Systems The cybernetics of complexity thinking Architecture as a complex system Emergent and self-organized form The material computation of architecture End of the journey Notes Bibliography Chapter 6. The Platonic Backhand and Forehand of Cybernetic Architecture Political fiction or science fiction? A critical tool Notes Bibliography Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 729; Architectural design; Cybernetics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000422610; 9781000421866; 9781003181101
• Related ISBNs: 9781032019406
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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