Antoine Picon

Digital Culture in

Architecture

An rntroductLon

for the DesL~n professLons

Birkhäuser

Basel

Introduction 7

People, Computers and Architecture: A Historical Overview I5The emergence of the scci.etu of mf'ornet con 16

The rlse of computer eplstemoLogy 24cytJernetlcs i.n ar chi t.et ture and pl anrung: patterns, systems and networks 32

The formaLlst turn ln postmodernlsm and crltlcaL theory 45olgltaL cuLture, space and soclatJlLlty 48

ar cht tectur e as t nt erf ace 55

Experiments in Form and Performance 59

The seductlon of lnnovatlve geometrles 60olagrammlng compLexlty 73

The surface as archltecture 84

From anlmatlon to aLgorlthmlcs 94mtr i cate er nuu net i st eLegance 7 100

olgltaL age subjectrvt tu, performance and meanlng 104

From Tectonic to Ornament: Towards a Different Materiality II5

contemporary technoLogy as Landscape 116rhe UlSlS of scaLe and tect oruc 12 4

From memory to OtJLlVlon 133Aelnventlng ornament 138

A dt ffer ent matenaLlty 143MatenaLs tJy deslgn 159

oeslgn strategles and professlonaL perspectlves 162WlLL robot i zat i on take connend? 164

The City in the Digital Sprawl I7 I

urban features Ln the dlgltaL age 17 2

A Clty of i ndi vi duat.s 177An augmented urtJan reaLlty 185

cvents , si eut.att ons and scenar i os 191

Towards a spLlntered Clty7 20 5

Conclusion 209

Material Continuity and the Design Practice

Index 2 I 7

On the Author 224