Mapping in the Age of Digital Media: The Yale Symposium - Softcover

Silver, Mike; Balmori, Diana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470850760 ISBN 13: 9780470850763

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

Combining the insights of designers, theorists, engineers and artists this book examines the cultural, aesthetic and political effects of mapping techniques on the fields of cultural production in art, science and architecture

In recent years, new digital mapping techniques have begun to alter profoundly the ways in which we measure and represent space. In architecture, it is such techniques that have made possible such extraordinary structures as Frank Gehry s Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

3D scanning technology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Satellite Positioning Systems to mention just a few have produced unique visions of architecture and its environment.

• Digital mapping is redefining the possibilities of architectural construction and is gaining importance throughout all aspects of science and art.

• Cross–disciplinary contributions are featured, from engineers, designers, theorists and artists

• Richly illustrated, including many extraordinary computer–generated images

• Should also be an adoptable title, the author himself keen to adopt it for each of the four years through his course at Yale

About this title

Review:

"...the concluding essay?provides a valuable historical perspective..." (Architectural Review, August 2003)

About the Author:

MICHAEL SILVER is the Director of Digital Media at the Yale School of Architecture as well as a Lefevre Research Fellow for The Knowlton School of Architecture in Columbus, Ohio.  He also directs The Office of Research and Development, a multidisciplinary design laboratory with extensive experience in the design of furnishings, consumer products, websites and buildings.  The Office is committed to the precise alignment of advance technology, visionary consciousness, architectural theory, academic scholarship and the logitistics of building production, and carries out pioneering research in the field of digital mapping and architectural design.

DIANA BALMORI founded landscape and urban design firm Balmori Associates Inc in 1990.  Her work is particuarly geared to the design of urban public space.  She teaches at the Yale School of Architecture and at the Yale School of the Environment, and has brought about courses joining the two.  Her projects have been exhibited in the Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), the Seventh Floor Gallery (New York City), Yale School of Architecture and Bard College.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0470850760
• ISBN 13: 9780470850763
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144