Signal. Image. Architecture.

Architecture is immersed in an immense cultural experiment called imaging, but the technical status and nature of that imaging must be reevaluated. Signal. Image. Architecture aims to clarify the status of computational images in contemporary architectural thought and practice by showing what happens if the technical basis of architecture is examined closely. It is not a theory of architectural images, but rather a brief philosophical description of architecture after imaging.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 144 pages
\n Publication date: 01 November 2019
\n Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City
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Architecture is deeply entangled in a vast cultural experiment known as imaging, yet the technical status and nature of this imaging must be reassessed. When the architectural mind ceases to pretend that electronic images of computer-generated drawings are actual drawings, and instead acknowledges that imaging is something that has already surpassed drawing, what transpires within the architectural realm? These profound questions have yet to be adequately explored by architecture, as it mistakenly believes that its ideas and practices can withstand the pervasive culture of imaging, in which the rest of life either thrives or struggles. To meticulously describe the world to oneself is to lay the groundwork for an as-yet-unavailable politics. New descriptions can, under the right circumstances, be crafted to serve as the raw material for political impulses that cannot yet be fully expressed or experienced, as their preconditions have not been properly arranged and articulated.

Signal. Image. Architecture.

\n Weight: 134g\n
Dimension: 115 x 182 x 12 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781941332467\n \n