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Book SynopsisBeauty in architecture matters again. This issue ofADposits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back. This is evidenced by a current cultural shift from the supposedly objective to an emerging trust in the subjective a renewed fascination for aesthetics supported by new knowledge emanating simultaneously from disparate disciplines.
Digital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term ''post-digital'' was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition.
The issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the internat
Table of Contents
Introduction Architecture and Beauty: A Symbiotic Relationship
Chapter 2 Beauty in Architecture: Not a Luxury – Only a Necessity
Chapter 3 Truth and Beauty: The Role of Aesthetics in Mathematics and Physics
Chapter 4 The Return of Beauty: Driving a Wedge Between Objects and Qualities
Chapter 5 Abstraction and Informality Generate a New Aesthetic: An Interview with Kazuyo Sejima
Chapter 6 New Solids and Massive Forms
Chapter 7 Which Beauty Will Guide Us? Seeking a Reflective, Sustainable, Socially Engaged Visual Culture
Chapter 8 Chromatic Compositions: Design Dissonance and the Aesthetic of Fusion
Chapter 9 Beauty as Ecological Intelligence: Bio-digital Aesthetics as a Value System of Post-Anthropocene Architecture
Chapter 10 The Primacy of Relationships and the Reclamation of Beauty – Jeanne Gang: Observed and Interviewed
Chapter 11 The Geometry of Seduction: Considerations of Beauty from Noun to Verb
Chapter 12 A Specific Theory of Models: The Posthuman Beauty of Weird Scales, Snowglobes and Supercomponents
Chapter 13 Ambiguous, Bipolar Beauty: And Similarly Agile and Fragile Post-Digital Practices
Chapter 14 Deep Immediacy: Programming Beauty
Chapter 15 Beauty is in the Back Story: Diversity, Complexity and Collaborative Making in the Australian Condition – In Conversation with John Wardle
Chapter 16 In Search of the Unseen: Towards Superhuman Intuition
Chapter 17 In Part Whole: The Aesthetics of the Discrete
Chapter 18 Counterpoint – 'A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet': Finding Beauty in the Past Century
