Structuralism reloaded : rule-based design in architecture and urbanism / edited by Tomáš Valena, with Tom Avermaete, Georg Vrachliotis ; [translation into English, Ilze Mueller].

Published: Stuttgart : Edition A. Menges, [2011]
Copyright Date: ©2011
Physical Description: 391 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 30 cm
Additional Creators: Valena, Thomas F., Avermaete, Tom, and Vrachliotis, Georg

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Machine generated contents note: Structural Approaches and Rule-Based Design in Architecture and Urban Planning / Tomas Valena -- The Structuralist Activity and Architecture -- The Structuralist Activity / Roland Barthes -- Inter-Spaces. Cybernetics and Structuralism / Peter Bexte -- (Neo-)Structuralism - (Neo-)Neo-Marxism / Andri Gerber -- Structural Approaches in the Architectural Theory of the 1960s and 1970s / Claus Dreyer -- Le Corbusier and the Paradoxical Promise of Flexibility / Hashim Sarkis -- Constantinos Doxiadis. Thinking in Structures and the Claim for Objectivity in Architecture / Bernhard Langer -- "How form came about from society." Christopher Alexander or About Architecture as a Form of Culture and Structure / Georg Vrachliotis -- Structure and Development Process of the City. The Morphogenetic Approach of Saverio Muratori / Sylvain Malfroy -- Structural Thinking in Architecture / Jorg M. Gleiter -- Structuralism in Architecture and Urban Planning. Developments in the Netherlands. Introduction of the Term / Arnulf Luchinger -- Heroic Structuralism -- "A New and Shuffled Order." The Heroic Structuralism and Other Variants / Dirk van den Heuvel -- Driving Forces behind Dutch Structuralism / Herman van Bergeijk -- The Ethnographic Paradigm, Revisited / Georges Teyssot -- From Deep Structure to Spatial Practice. Team 10, Structuralist Attitudes, and the Influence of Anthropology / Tom Avermaete -- Forum 1962. Patterns of Growth as History Machines / Joaquin Medina Warmburg -- Morphology, Design Rules, Artistic Principles, and the Work of John Habraken / Koos Bosma -- Explorations in Mat-Building. Urban Critique of Kuwait / Asseel al-Ragam -- Urbanization of Architecture. Free University Berlin, 1961-2005 / Anne Kockelkorn -- Open Systems / Herman Hertzberger -- Structuralist Trajectories -- Structuralist Trajectories. A Modus Operandi and its Engagement with Various Architectural Cultures / Tom Avermaete -- Habitat 67 or Structuralism Redux / Inderbir Singh Riar -- Principles and Characteristics of the "Structuralist" Movement of a Cybernetic Character in the Federal Republic of Germany / Michael Hecker -- The Structuralist Approach and the City in Space. Floating Cities for a Globalized Community, 1958-1974 / Markus Stempl -- Mega-Structuralism and the Groupe d'Etude d'Architecture Mobile / Cornelia Regine Escher -- Structuralism and Metabolism / Ersi Loannidou -- Rules and Images - Oswald Mathias Ungers / Roland Zuger -- Italian Structuralism / Andri Gerber -- Structuralism in Slovenia. The Poetic Approach of Edo Ravnikar / Andrej Hrausky -- Neo-Structuralism and Digital Culture -- On Conceptual Histories of Architecture and Digital Culture / Georg Vrachliotis -- Signal to Noise - What is Quality in Digital Architecture? / Fabian Scheurer -- Generative Planning Methods from a Structuralist Perspective / Reinhard Konig -- Reverse Functionalism. Deleuze and the Structure of Diagrams / Christopher Dell -- Evolutionary Structuralism / Rudiger Karzel -- Ornamental Structuralism. From Rhythm to Evolution - the Future of Structuralism? / Michael Durfeld -- Recursions: Emerging Structures of Computer-Generated Art and Architecture / Ingeborg M. Rocker -- Does Structuralism Fail Again? / Stefan Hajek -- Learning from Misunderstandings. Structuralism and Digital Design Today / Gernot Weckherlin -- Algorithmic Design. Structuralism Reloaded? / Toni Kotnik -- Case Studies -- Pixelpower / Winy Maas -- Parametric Design Processes in Urbanism / Uwe Brederlau -- Structuralism Recoded / Thomas Wortmann -- Mass Diversity. Individualized Housing via Parametric Typology / Gunter Barczik -- The Building Synthesizer / Steffen Lemmerzahl -- The Primeval City. A Self-Planning Jungle, or Structuralism Today / Peter Haimerl -- Metous Studio: "Barrio de Los Paracaidistas." A Prototypical Tower for the People of Mexico City -- Designtoproduction: Translating Architecture -- Appendix -- About the Authors.

Subject(s)

Structuralism (Architecture)—Congresses
City planning—History—20th century—Congresses
City planning—History—21st century—Congresses

ISBN

9783936681475
3936681473

Note

Papers from an international symposium held in Nov. 2009 in Munich, with additional contributions.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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