{"product_id":"digitalia-architecture-and-the-digital-the-environmental-and-the-avantgarde-9780415395458","title":"Digitalia Architecture and the Digital the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSusannah Hagan boldly discusses the fraught relationship between key dominating areas of architectural discourse - digital design, environmental design, and avant-garde design.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDigitalia\u003c\/em\u003e firstly demonstrates that drawing such firm lines between architectural spheres is damaging and foolish, particularly as both environmental and avant-garde practices are experimenting with the digital, and secondly remonstrates with an avant-garde that has repudiated the social\/ethical agenda of the modernist avant-garde because it failed the first time round. It is environmental architecture that has picked up the social\/ethical ball and is running with it, using the digital to very different, and more far-reaching, ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the debates rage, this book is a key read for all who are involved or intrigued.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1. Deep Background Binary Opposites. Binary Dependencies. New Dependencies. Melds 2. The Avant-Garde: Autonomous or Engaged? The Avant-Garde's Dilemma. Manfredo Tafuri. Theodor Adorno. An Avant-Garde Now 3. The Autonomous Avant-Garde and the Digital: From Formalism to Nature. Procedural Innovation: Practice. Procedural Innovation: The Academy. The Parametric Past: Structuralism. Christopher Alexander and Generative Rules. The Dissenters. In Pursuit of Novelty. Nature Restored 4. The Engaged Avant-Garde and the Digital: From Nature to Environmental Design. Closing the Loop. Modelling Built Behaviours. Productive Form-Finding. Constructible Parametrics 5. The Avant-Garde: Meeting in the City. The Groningen Experiment. EnGen. Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402110247255,"sku":"9780415395458","price":166.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415395458.jpg?v=1730479426","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/digitalia-architecture-and-the-digital-the-environmental-and-the-avantgarde-9780415395458","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}