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Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground: Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society

Editat de Theodora Vardouli, Olga Touloumi
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 noi 2019
Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works unearthing sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20th century.
Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, this book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development. The book is organized into sections corresponding to the classic von Neumann diagram for computer architecture: program (control unit), storage (memory), input/output and computation (arithmetic/logic unit), each acting as a quasi-material category for parsing debates among architects, engineers, mathematicians, and technologists. Collectively, authors bring forth the striking homologies between a computer program and an architectural program, a wall and an interface, computer memory and storage architectures, structures of mathematics and structures of things. The collection initiates new histories of knowledge and technology production that turn an eye toward disciplinary fusions and their institutional and intellectual drives.
Constructing the common ground between design and computing, this collection addresses audiences working at the nexus of design, technology, and society, including historians and practitioners of design and architecture, science and technology scholars, and media studies scholars.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780815396529
ISBN-10: 081539652X
Pagini: 244
Ilustrații: 68
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Public țintă

Postgraduate

Cuprins

1. Introduction: Toward a Polyglot Space  PART I PROGRAM  2. Computing Environmental Design  3. The Work of Design and the Design of Work: Olivetti and the Political Economy of its Early Computers  4. "Bewildered, the Form-Maker Stands Alone": Computer Architecture and the Quest for Design Rationality  PART II INPUT/OUTPUT  5. Augmentation and Interface: Tracing a Spectrum  6. The First Failure of Man-Computer Symbiosis: The Hospital Computer Project, 1960-1968  7. The Unclean Human-Machine Interface  PART III STORAGE  8. Architectures of Information: A Comparison of Wiener’s and Shannon’s Theories of Information  9. Bureaucracy’s Playthings  PART IV COMPUTATION  10. Imagining Architecture as a Form of Concrete Poetry  11. The Axiomatic Aesthetic

Notă biografică

Theodora Vardouli is Assistant Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada.
Olga Touloumi is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Bard College, USA.

Recenzii

"This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It’s a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice." -  Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Descriere

Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works that unearth sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20th century.