Cybernetic Architectures: Informational Thinking and Digital Design

Cybernetic Architectures explores how technology advancements have enabled new computer-mediated design methods, fabrication techniques, and architectural expressions. It argues that these frameworks have been constructed in direct reference to cybernetic thinking, a thought model that emerged concurrently with the origins of informatics and embodies the main assumptions, values, and ideals underlying the development of computer science. The book explains how the evolution of the computational perspective in architecture has been parallel to the construction of design issues in reference to the central ideas fostered by the cybernetic model. It will appeal to architecture students and scholars interested in understanding the recent transformations in the architectural landscape related to the advent of computer-based design paradigms.

Format: Hardback
Length: 14 pages
Publication date: 30 July 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

For the past half-century, technological advancements have bestowed architects with exceptional tools, empowering the creation of novel computer-mediated design methodologies, fabrication techniques, and architectural expressions. Concurrently, in contemporary architecture, new frameworks have emerged, fundamentally redefining traditional conceptions of design, the built environment, and the role of architects.

Cybernetic Architectures posits that these frameworks were constructed in direct reference to cybernetic thinking, a thought model that emerged concurrently with the origins of informatics and encapsulates the fundamental assumptions, values, and ideals underlying the development of computer science. The book elucidates how the evolution of the computational perspective in architecture has paralleled the construction of design issues in alignment with the central ideas fostered by the cybernetic model. It unravels and elucidates this crucial relationship, observed in the work of digital architects, between the utilization of information technology in design and the conception of architectural problems within an informational ontology.

This book holds immense appeal to architecture students and scholars seeking to comprehend the recent transformations in the architectural landscape driven by the emergence of computer-based design paradigms.

Weight: 450g
Dimension: 160 x 241 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032019406