Machine Landscapes

Author : Liam Young
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781119453017

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Machine Landscapes by Liam Young Pdf

The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised agriculture that define the very nature of who we are today are at the same time places we can never visit. Instead they are occupied by server stacks and hard drives, logistics bots and mobile shelving units, autonomous cranes and container ships, robot vacuum cleaners and internet-connected toasters, driverless tractors and taxis. This issue is an atlas of sites, architectures and infrastructures that are not built for us, but whose form, materiality and purpose is configured to anticipate the patterns of machine vision and habitation rather than our own. We are said to be living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which humans are the dominant force shaping the planet. This collection of spaces, however, more accurately constitutes an era of the Post-Anthropocene, a period where it is technology and artificial intelligence that now computes, conditions and constructs our world. Marking the end of human-centred design, the issue turns its attention to the new typologies of the post-human, architecture without people and our endless expanse of Machine Landscapes. Contributors: Rem Koolhaas, Merve Bedir and Jason Hilgefort, Benjamin H Bratton, Ingrid Burrington, Ian Cheng, Cathryn Dwyre, Chris Perry, David Salomon and Kathy Velikov, John Gerrard, Alice Gorman, Adam Harvey, Jesse LeCavalier, Xingzhe Liu, Clare Lyster, Geoff Manaugh, Tim Maughan, Simone C Niquille, Jenny Odell, Trevor Paglen, Ben Roberts. Featured interviews: Deborah Harrison, designer of Microsoft’s Cortana; and Paul Inglis, designer of the urban landscapes of Blade Runner 2049.

Author : Paul Shepheard
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262314398

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What Is Architecture? by Paul Shepheard Pdf

British architect and critic Paul Shepheard is a fresh new voice in current postmodern debates about the history and meaning of architecture. In this wonderfully unorthodox quasi-novelistic essay, complete with characters and dialogue (but no plot), Shepheard draws a boundary around the subject of architecture, describing its place in art and technology, its place in history, and its place in our lives now. At a time when it is fashionable to say that architecture is everything—from philosophy to science to art to theory—Shepheard boldly and irreverently sets limits to the subject, so that we may talk about architecture for what it is. He takes strong positions, names the causes of the problems, and tells us how bad things are and how they can get better. Along the way he marshals some unlikely but plausible witnesses who testify about the current state of architecture. Instead of the usual claims or complaints by the usual suspects, these observations are of an altogether different order. Constructed as a series of fables, many of them politically incorrect, What is Architecture? is a refreshing meditation on the options, hopes, possibilities, and failures of shelter in society.

Author : Linda Crone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Embroidery, Machine
ISBN : 0873418360

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Fabric Landscapes by Machine by Linda Crone Pdf

Sew beautiful landscapes for home decor and wearables.

Author : Molly Wright Steenson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262546782

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Architectural Intelligence by Molly Wright Steenson Pdf

Architects who engaged with cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies poured the foundation for digital interactivity. In Architectural Intelligence, Molly Wright Steenson explores the work of four architects in the 1960s and 1970s who incorporated elements of interactivity into their work. Christopher Alexander, Richard Saul Wurman, Cedric Price, and Nicholas Negroponte and the MIT Architecture Machine Group all incorporated technologies—including cybernetics and artificial intelligence—into their work and influenced digital design practices from the late 1980s to the present day. Alexander, long before his famous 1977 book A Pattern Language, used computation and structure to visualize design problems; Wurman popularized the notion of “information architecture”; Price designed some of the first intelligent buildings; and Negroponte experimented with the ways people experience artificial intelligence, even at architectural scale. Steenson investigates how these architects pushed the boundaries of architecture—and how their technological experiments pushed the boundaries of technology. What did computational, cybernetic, and artificial intelligence researchers have to gain by engaging with architects and architectural problems? And what was this new space that emerged within these collaborations? At times, Steenson writes, the architects in this book characterized themselves as anti-architects and their work as anti-architecture. The projects Steenson examines mostly did not result in constructed buildings, but rather in design processes and tools, computer programs, interfaces, digital environments. Alexander, Wurman, Price, and Negroponte laid the foundation for many of our contemporary interactive practices, from information architecture to interaction design, from machine learning to smart cities.

Author : John M. Flach,Peter A. Hancock,Jeff Caird,Kim J. Vicente
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781351444651

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Global Perspectives on the Ecology of Human-Machine Systems by John M. Flach,Peter A. Hancock,Jeff Caird,Kim J. Vicente Pdf

There is a growing consensus in the human factors/ergonomics community that human factors research has had little impact on significant applied problems. Some have suggested that the problem lies in the fact that much HF/E research has been based on the wrong type of psychology, an information processing view of psychology that is reductionistic and context-free. Ecological psychology offers a viable alternative, presenting a richer view of human behavior that is holistic and contextualized. The papers presented in these two volumes show the conceptual impact that ecological psychology can have on HF/E, as well as presenting a number of specific examples illustrating the ecological approach to human-machine systems. It is the first collection of papers that explicitly draws a connection between these two fields. While work in this area is only just beginning, the evidence available suggests that taking an ecological approach to human factors/ergonomics helps bridge the existing gap between basic research and applied problems.

Author : Edward Relph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317373667

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Rational Landscapes and Humanistic Geography by Edward Relph Pdf

This book, first published in 1981, explores why it is that the modern built environment, while successfully providing material comfort and technical efficiency, none the less breeds despair and depression rather than inspires hope and commitment. The source of this paradox, where material benefits appear to have been gained only at the expense of intangible values and qualities is found in humanism, the persistent and powerful belief that all problems can be solved through the use of human reason. But humanism has become increasingly confused, rationalistic, callously devoted to efficiency, and authoritarian. These confusions and contradictions, together with the anti-nature stance of humanism and its failure to teach humane behaviour, lead the author to conclude that humanism is best rejected. Such rejection does not advocate the inhuman and anti-human, but requires instead a return to the ‘humility’ that lies at the origin of humanism – a respect for objects, creatures, environments and people. This ‘environmental humility’ is explored in the context of individuality of settings, ways of seeing landscapes, appropriation and ways of building places. This title will be of interest to students of human geography.

Author : Joyce Becker
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781607052951

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Beautifully Embellished Landscapes by Joyce Becker Pdf

New Ideas to Bring Your Landscape Quilts to Life! You won't believe the realistic effects you can achieve in your next landscape quilt! Amazing variety of techniques includes paints, markers, stamps, photo printing and artwork, threadwork and lace, sheer overlays and Angelina fibers, and so much more. Create realistic special effects for water, reflections, skies, snow, gardens, and buildings. Great ideas for landscape-inspired gifts including greeting cards, photo transfers, and small quilts. Spectacular results are within your reach, when you try the techniques developed by landscape expert Joyce Becker. Play like a kid in kindergarten: special paints, fibers, and tools are easy to find and fun to use. Over 200 photos and illustrations for inspiration, plus 8 complete projects.

Author : Joan Blalock
Publisher : Martingale
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Landscapes in art
ISBN : 156477144X

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Quilted Landscapes by Joan Blalock Pdf

Designing a quilt - Supplies and materials - Basic methods - Embellishments.

Author : Joyce R. Becker
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fabric pictures
ISBN : 1571201947

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Luscious Landscapes by Joyce R. Becker Pdf

Author : Joanna Zylinska
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262376624

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The Perception Machine by Joanna Zylinska Pdf

A provocative investigation of the future of photography and human perception in the age of AI. We are constantly photographing and being photographed while feeding machine learning databases with our data, which in turn is used to generate new images. Analyzing the transformation of photography by computation—and the transformation of human perception by algorithmically driven images, from CGI to AI—The Perception Machine investigates what it means for us to live surrounded by image flows and machine eyes. In an astute and engaging argument, Joanna Zylinska brings together media theory and neuroscience in a Vilém Flusser–Paul Virilio remix. Her “perception machine” names a technical universe of images and their infrastructures. But it also refers to a sociopolitical condition resulting from today’s automation of vision, imaging—and imagination. Written by a theorist-practitioner, the book incorporates Zylinska’s own art projects, some of which have been co-created with AI. The photographs, collages, films, and installations available as part of the book (and its companion website) provide a different mode of thinking about our technological futures, at a local as well as a planetary level. Offering provocative concepts such as eco-eco-punk, AUTO-FOTO-KINO, planetary micro-vision, loser images, and sensography, the book outlines an existential philosophy of messy media for a time when our practices of imaging and self-imaging are being radically redesigned. Importantly, it also offers a new vision of our future.

Author : Karen Eckmeier,Quilted Lizard, The
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Fabric pictures
ISBN : 0979203317

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Accidental Landscapes by Karen Eckmeier,Quilted Lizard, The Pdf

Author : Gloria Loughman
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781607056300

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Radiant Landscapes by Gloria Loughman Pdf

Here, readers can discover how to add dramatic depth to their landscape applique quilts using easy-to-follow techniques from master quilter Gloria Loughman."

Author : Joen Wolfrom
Publisher : C&T Publishing Inc
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781571205179

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Landscapes and Illusions by Joen Wolfrom Pdf

Here is the book to help you create strip-pieced fabric landscape quilts that reflect the ever-changing moods of nature. With clear, precise information on color and fabric, learn to create visual illusions of depth, luminosity, reflections, or mist that add drama and emotion to your scenic imagery.

Author : Liam Young,Saskia Sassen,Kim Stanley Robinson,Ewan McEoin,Benjamin Bratton,Ashley Dawson,Holly Gene Buck,Ryan Griffen,Xia Jia,Stanley Chen,Giorgos Kallis,Nalo Hopkinson,Amaia Sanchez-Velasco,Andrew Toland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 064868587X

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Planet City by Liam Young,Saskia Sassen,Kim Stanley Robinson,Ewan McEoin,Benjamin Bratton,Ashley Dawson,Holly Gene Buck,Ryan Griffen,Xia Jia,Stanley Chen,Giorgos Kallis,Nalo Hopkinson,Amaia Sanchez-Velasco,Andrew Toland Pdf

Planet City is a speculation of what might happen if the world collapsed into a new home for 10 billion people, allowing the rest of the world to return to a global wilderness. It is both an extraordinary image of tomorrow and an urgent examination of the environmental questions that face us today.

Author : Martin Prominski,Hille Seggern
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781351104227

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Design Research for Urban Landscapes by Martin Prominski,Hille Seggern Pdf

Within the spatial design disciplines, research through design as a tool and practice has often been neglected. This book provides a much-needed companion to the theories, methods and processes involved in using design-based research in landscape, architecture and urban design. Aimed specifically at researchers completing PhD projects, supervisors and designers working in practice, it covers applied approaches to help you to use design research in your work. With fully illustrated examples of original international design research PhDs from a variety of programme types, such as individual, structured and practice-based, Design Research for Urban Landscapes offers PhD candidates and supervisors a clear foundational pathway.