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Internet architecture and innovation
Today--following housing bubbles, bank collapses, and high unemployment--the Internet remains the most reliable mechanism for fostering innovation and creating new wealth. The Internet's remarkable growth has been fueled by innovation. In this pathbreaking book, Barbara van Schewick argues that this explosion of innovation is not an accident, but a consequence of the Internet's architecture--a …
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Contagious architecture :computation, aesthetics, and space
In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that its operation extends into forms of abstraction that lie beyond direct human cognition and control. Th…
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- 1 online resource (xx, 370 pages) :illustrations.
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Nurturing dreams :collected essays on architecture and the city
Unavailable as a collection until now, these essays document both the intellectual journey of one of the world's leading architects and a critical period in the evolution of architectural thought.Born in Tokyo, educated in Japan and the United States, and principal of an internationally acclaimed architectural practice, celebrated architect Fumihiko Maki brings to his writings on architecture a…
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- 9780262278911
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 273 pages) :illustrations
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The Soar cognitive architecture
"A Bradford Book."The definitive presentation of Soar, one AI's most enduring architectures, offering comprehensive descriptions of fundamental aspects and new components.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262301145
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- 1 online resource (xv, 374 pages) :illustrations
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Histories of the immediate present :inventing architectural modernism
How the different narratives of four historians of architectural modernism-Emil Kaufmann, Colin Rowe, Reyner Banham, and Manfredo Tafuri-advanced specific versions of modernism.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262288163
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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Programmed visions :software and memory
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun argues that cycles of obsolescence & renewal result in part from the ways in which new media encapsulates a logic of programmability. In seeking to embody a future based on past data, new media becomes a metaphor for metaphor itself.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262295215
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 239 pages) :illustrations.
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The architecture of Erik Gunnar Asplund
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- 0262368099
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 259 pages) :illustrations
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Built upon love :architectural longing after ethics and aesthetics
A vision of architecture that transcends concerns of form and function and finds the connections between the architect's wish to design a beautiful world and architecture's imperative to provide a better place for society. The forced polarity between form and function in considerations of architecture--opposing art to social interests, ethics to poetic expression--obscures the deep connections …
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- 9780262281409
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- 1 online resource (x, 247 pages)
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Body and building :essays on the changing relation of body and architecture
Written for a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania in March 1996 in honor of Jospeh Rykwert.Essays on the changing relationship of the human body and architecture.Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this book, an international group of architects, architectural historians, and theorists examines the relation of the human bo…
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- 9780262271813
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- 1 online resource (427 pages) :illustrations
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Architecture, ceremonial, and power :the Topkapi Palace in the fifteenth and …
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Harvard University, 1986.Glru Necipoglu brings together largely unpublished sources, both written and visual, along with information derived from the architectural remains to uncover the processes through which the meaning of the palace was once produced, before it came to represent a stereotyped microcosm of oriental despotism imbued with the exotic …
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- 1 online resource (vi, 336 pages) :illustrations, maps
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