The Architecture of Intelligence (IT Revolution in Architecture) - Softcover

Kerckhove, Derrick De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3764364513 ISBN 13: 9783764364519

Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG, 2001

Synopsis

What does the architecture of the Web look like? How has the Internet changed traditional architecture? This compelling book explores these topics. A refreshingly unconventional look at architecture and the World Wide Web. Using Vitruvius' classical text De Arquitectura as a starting point, De Kerckhove begins a journey into the exciting world of the Internet. On the one hand he explores the architecture of this revolutionary mediums, on the other, he considers the wide-ranging opportunities which the IT world offers for architectonic design, revealing how this new medium for communication is as much based on tradition as on innovation. Derrick de Kerckhove is the Director of the McLuhan Institute and Professor at the University of Toronto. His research into the effects of innovative technology on human communication, of new media on traditional culture have gained worldwide recognition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag AG
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 3764364513
• ISBN 13: 9783764364519
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 93