Verb Connection (Architecture Boogazine): v. 3 (Architecture Boogazine S.) - Softcover

Albert Ferré

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8495951061 ISBN 13: 9788495951069

Publisher: Actar Publishers, 2004

Synopsis

The third issue of Verb boogazine is about the changing status of the city in the electronic era. Connection looks at the impact of electronic technology on new forms of urban reality, which are generated by new phenomena that affect all aspects of space and the experience of living in these new urbanisms. Faced with an increased blurring of the distinctions between the physical and the informational dimension of cities, we explore the relation between virtual connections - the effect of digital networks on the spaces and uses of the city - and the persistent role of architecture in creating physical connections between people, programs and uses. Featured works and texts: OMA, Atelier Bow-Wow, AUDC, PLOT. Featuring the Palast der Republik story in Berlin, Chip City by Shinobu Hashimoto and Rients Dijkstra, and Sim City, which contrasts the real city (the product of virtual processes) with virtual cities (created by real people, via computer-based simulations).

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Product Description:

This issue of the boogazine "Verb" is about the city in the electronic era. It looks at the impact of electronic technology on urban reality, on the forms it is conceived in, on the new phenomena and new forms that generate it, but also on the form in which all aspects of the space of the city are experienced and lived. The handling of information is forever blurring the frontiers between the physical and the informational dimension of cities. This exploration ranges from the strange typological hybrids of the ultra-dense Asian city, taking in the American mixture of real and entertainment city, to the similarities between the physical network on the ground and its sister network on the internet.

About this edition

• Publisher: Actar Publishers
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8495951061
• ISBN 13: 9788495951069
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 260