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Architecture and Adaptation

From Cybernetics to Tangible Computing
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Architecture and Adaptation explores innovative architectural projects that employ computational technologies to respond dynamically to changing environmental conditions and human needs. It covers a broad range of topics, including kinetic and transformable structures, interactive installations, intelligent environments, and the socio-cultural implications of adaptive architecture. The book also delves into the history and theory of artificial life and human-computer interaction, providing valuable frameworks for evaluating trends in adaptive architectural design. Enhanced by over 50 black and white illustrations, this work offers scholarly insight into the evolving relationship between technology and the built environment.
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This book is ideal for architecture professionals, researchers, and students interested in computational design, adaptive structures, and the intersection of technology and architecture. It suits readers keen on theoretical and practical perspectives within contemporary architectural innovation.

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Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs.

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Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents and their historical context, socio-cultural aspects of adaptive architecture, the history and theory of artificial life, the theory of human-computer interaction, tangible computing, and the social studies of technology.

Author Socrates Yiannoudes proposes tools and frameworks for researchers to evaluate examples and tendencies in adaptive architecture. Illustrated with more than 50 black and white images.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138843158

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 February 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Illustration: 10 Line drawings, black and white; 59 Halftones, black and white; 69 Illustrations, black and white

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 612g

Pages: 232

About the Author

Socrates Yiannoudes is a Lecturer at the School of Architectural Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Greece. He teaches Architectural Design and Digital Technologies, theory and practice, at undergraduate and postgraduate level. His research interests include digital culture and architecture as well as the application of science and technology studies in architectural research.

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