Cybernetic Architectures: Informational Thinking and Digital Design

Technology advancements have enabled architects to develop new computer-mediated design methods, fabrication techniques, and architectural expressions. Cybernetic Architectures 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. It unpacks and explains this crucial relationship between the use of information technology in design and the conception of architectural problems around an informational ontology, appealing to architecture students and scholars interested in understanding the recent transformations in the architectural landscape.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 14 pages
Publication date: 09 January 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Over the past half-century, technological advancements have bestowed architects with a remarkable set of tools, empowering them to create innovative computer-mediated design methods, fabrication techniques, and architectural expressions. Simultaneously, 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 have been explicitly built upon cybernetic thinking, a thought model that coalesced alongside the emergence of informatics and encapsulates the fundamental assumptions, values, and ideals that underpin the development of computer science. The book delves into the intricate relationship between the evolution of the computational perspective in architecture and the construction of design issues in alignment with the central ideas propagated by the cybernetic model. It unravels and elucidates this critical connection, observed in the work of digital architects, between the utilization of information technology in design and the conceptualization 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 advent of computer-based design paradigms. It serves as a valuable resource for those eager to delve deeper into the evolving field of architecture and explore the exciting possibilities that technology has brought forth.

Weight: 318g
Dimension: 153 x 233 x 11 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032019420