Antoine picon is an engineer at the ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees, a teacher of architectural history and theory at the harvard university graduate school of design, and an internationally recognized authority on digital. Digital culture and architecture evolution or revolution. Mar 30, 2018 the writings of mario carpo, antoine picon and georges teyssot follow a quite abstract approach, but are now firmly entrenched in architecture history. Jun 29, 2010 todays explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. Use of digital design tools in architecture forum archinect. Ornament ebook by antoine picon 9781118588246 rakuten kobo. The relationship of digital architecture to the city is also an important focus. February 24, 2017the inaugural smart cities miami conference, hosted last week by the school of architecture and the center for computational science ccs, brought industry visionaries, technology experts, government planners, and the public together to focus on the disruptive power that the mobilization of new technology will have in our cities and on our lives. The criteria for selecting contributions will be innovation, clarity of purpose and method, and potential transformational impact on disciplinary fields or the broader sociocultural. He teaches courses in the history of architecture and technology. Ware travelstead professor of the history of architecture and technology and director of research at the gsd. Each special edition is created using sheetfed litho printing with handinserted tipins and gatefolds with vegetablebased inks on a mix of fsccertified paper and card. Todays explosive developments in digital technology have also affected architecture and the urban landscape. He has published numerous books and articles mostly dealing with the complementary histories of architecture, science and technology.
Also look at antoine picons book on digital culture, mario carpos book the alphabet and the algorithm and bob sheils collection manufacturing the bespoke. These he defines as the subjective the human interaction that ornament requires in both its production and its reception and the political. Imprint pagecontents imprint pagecontents 20160901 00. The collaborative nature of digital design and production poses particular challenges for industries and disciplines built on traditional ideas of ownership in legal, economic and ethical terms. Architecture and the sciences shows how scientific paradigms have migrated to architecture through the appropriation of organic and mechanical models. Ortega bases his essay on these reflections and elaborates on them, following a path in which speculative considerations are interwoven into the concrete awareness of what digital machines are. The evolution of form in nature and civilisation chichester. Ornament once condemned by modernism and compared to a crime by adolf loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. Conversely, architecture has provided images for scientific and technological discourse. The plan journal tpj intends to disseminate and promote innovative, thoughtprovoking and relevant research, studies and criticism in architecture and urbanism.
Computeraided design and digital simulation have led to new forms as well as to an increasingly strategic approach to architecture and urban. About antoine picon antoine picon is an engineer at the ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees, a teacher of architectural history and theory at the harvard university graduate school of design, and an internationally recognized authority on digital technology. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, picon works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the eighteenth century. Ware travelstead professor of the history of architecture and technology at the harvard graduate school of design. Sep 15, 2010 about antoine picon antoine picon is an engineer at the ecole nationale des ponts et chaussees, a teacher of architectural history and theory at the harvard university graduate school of design, and an internationally recognized authority on digital technology. Digital culture in architecture find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Almost a century later, if we replace the word machine civilization with digital civilization we might say that architecture finds. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, antoine picon is the g. Ware travelstead professor of the history of architecture and technology at harvard graduate school of design. Apr 21, 2014 though inextricably linked with digital tools and culture, antoine picon argues that some significant traits in ornament persist from earlier western architectural traditions.
Pdf architecture and the virtual towards a new materiality. Picons most recent books offer a comprehensive overview of the changes brought by the computer and digital culture to the theory and practice of architecture as. Flichy draws on writings by expertspaying particular attention to the gurus of wired magazine, but also citing articles in time, newsweek, and business weekfrom 1991 to 1995. Jan 15, 2015 antoine picons new book argues that the real digital revolution in architecture lies in new tools for critique, not mere formgiving. Books by antoine picon author of digital culture in. A curated selection of the best architectural ideas in the world to inspire your mind and feed your soul. The internet imaginaire, flichy argues, led software designers, businesses, politicians, and individuals to adopt this one technology instead of another. Antoine picon the center for computational science. Though inextricably linked with digital tools and culture, antoine picon argues that some significant traits in ornament persist from earlier western architectural traditions. Ware travelstead professor at gsd, harvard spends 216 pages recounting, in a very academic way, the deep history of. Antoine picon has written extensively on the history of urban technologies, ranging from the impact of the enlightenment through to the digital and computational revolution in architecture. The dimension of landscape is however present in michael weinstock, the architecture of emergence.
From the eyes on the street to the eyes of the city antoine picons response to curatorial statement at shenzhen biennial. Antoine picons new book argues that the real digital revolution in architecture lies in new tools for critique, not mere formgiving. Architectural ornament, from vitruvius to the digital age antoine picon is the g. The proliferation of developments in design software has enabled architects to experiment afresh with texture, colour, pattern and topology. In truth, theres no one answer, you need to need to negotiate computational and material practices in your own head software hardware space as an individual. In truth, theres no one answer, you need to need to negotiate computational and material practices in your own head software hardware space as. These he defines as the subjective the human interaction that ornament requires in both its production and its reception. From the preliminary sketch all the way to the production. As part of architecture science and technology, an introduction, course by antoine picon, harvard university. Digital culture in architecture by birkhauser issuu. Smart cities are employing information and communication technologies in the quest for sustainable economic development and the.
An introduction for the design professions antoine picon. As we have stressed it, digital architecture, in the narrow sense of a. An introduction for the design professions by antoine picon 3. Todays explosive developments in digital technology have affected architecture and the urban landscape. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the relations between science and technology.
This is what digital architecture is to a large extent about. Ware travelstead professor of the history of architecture and technology at harvard. A new paradigm in processbased design bechthold 2014, informed. The politics of architecture and subjectivity wiley. Antoine picon is the g ware travelstead professor of the history of architecture and technology and codirector of doctoral programs at harvard graduate school of design gsd. The relationships between architecture and technology in a. An introduction for the design professions, antoine picon, birkhauser, basel 2010 pp. An introduction for the design professions paperback. He is member of the scientific committee of the ecole nationale superieure d. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Antoine picon, digital culture in architecture youtube.
Digital architecture is about materiality because materiality is changing. The writings of mario carpo, antoine picon and georges teyssot follow a quite abstract approach, but are now firmly entrenched in architecture history. Opensource architecture 052016 about the introduction guesteditors the ownership wendy w fok and revolution antoine picon serving. The role of digital representation in architecture by hizkia. Picon 2004, materialising complexity scheurer 2010, design robotics. Picon, antoine once condemned by modernism and compared to a crime by adolf loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. We hope that this event will appeal to a broad audience of urban geographers, architects and planners, historians, and all with an interest in the history. An introduction for the design professions picon, antoine on. Moreover, according to antoine picon, in his book digital culture of architecture, the most immediate consequence of the use of the computer is without doubt the possibilities to manipulate. Architecture and the virtualtowards a new materiality. Accordingly, this volume investigates the status of the exchanges between the two domains. Almost a century later, if we replace the word machine civilization with digital civilization we might say that architecture finds itself in a similar situation.
The new possibilities opened up by digital simulation have led to an increasingly strategic approach to planning, an approach based on generating scenarios, which thus represents a radical departure from traditional planning. Ornament by antoine picon overdrive rakuten overdrive. We have explored this question in antoine picon, digital culture in architecture. Once condemned by modernism and compared to a crime by adolf loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary architecture. Smart cities are employing information and communication technologies in the quest for sustainable economic development and the fostering of new forms of collective life. Trained as an engineer, architect and historian, antoine picon is the g. He teaches courses in the history and theory of architecture and technology.
He has published numerous books and articles mostly dealing with the complementary histories of architecture and technology. Picon, antoine as cities compete globally, the smart city has been touted as the important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. A residential architects workflow design software duration. Materiality is culturally constructed, but the problem is the definition of materiality, materiality is not nature.
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