Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity - Hardcover

Maria Voyatzaki

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1474420575 ISBN 13: 9781474420570

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2018

Synopsis

Maps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture

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About the Author

Maria Voyatzaki (Vogiatzaki) is an architect and Professor of Architecture, Anglia Ruskin University, UK and a Professor of Architectural Design and Technology, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a PhD from the University of Bath, UK. She is the chief editor of peer-reviewed e-archidoct Journal. She has been involved in the European Association for Architectural Education as a Council Member and was the Coordinator of the European Network of Design and Technology Teachers.

From the Back Cover

Maps materiality's importance in the emergent posthuman future of architecture This book gathers 14 voices from a diverse group of architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich internal dynamism and its multifaceted context. By transversally crossing disciplinary boundaries, new and profound insights into contemporary thinking and creating architecture emerge. Combining the dynamism of materiality and the capacities of nonhuman machines towards prototyping spatiotemporal designs and constructs leads to alternative conceptions of the human, of ethics, aesthetics and politics in this world yet-to-come. Maria Voyatzaki (Vogiatzaki) is Professor of Architecture at Anglia Ruskin University and Professor of Architectural Design and Technology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Edition details

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474420575
• ISBN 13: 9781474420570
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Voyatzaki Maria