The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture

John Beckmann, Editor

ISBN 10: 1568981201 / ISBN 13: 9781568981208

Published by Princeton Architectural Press, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1998

About this Item

First Printing. A NEAR FINE, bright, clean, tight copy sans rips/tears, stains, markings, and discoloration. ILLUSTRATED in black-and-white photography with many full-page. "The Virtual Dimension" critically examines the role that digital and immersive technologies have on the methods used by architects, designers, and artists to conceptualize and represent both real and virtual spaces. Interdisciplinary in nature, the essays included here address the implications of "going virtual" from a variety of cultural and theoretical viewpoints. Over thirty leading architects, urban theorists, philosophers, scientists, and cultural critics have contributed to this collection." 359 pages. GC12.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Virtual Dimension: Architecture, Representation, and Crash Culture
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1568981201
• ISBN 13: 9781568981208
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued

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Synopsis

This comprehensive and definitive reader seeks to cover all aspects of the intersection of the fields of architecture and information technology.

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Recent Reviews
"This book will certainly be on my list of reading material for recommending to any student to assist their quest in joining the digital avant-garde."

—Neil Spiller, Building Design, UK, April 23, 1999

"Technophile design guru John Beckmann has rounded up most of the cybercultural elite for this survey of technology at the end of the century."

—Bookforum, Summer 1999

"The Virtual Dimension uncovers the newest frontiers for architecture albeit one still in its Wild West phase."

—Gavin Keeney, Oculus, May 1999

"Poised at the "continuous unfolding" between techno-culture and architecture, Beckmann anthologises essays from architect-theorists like Berkel and Bos on the predigital model of endlessness pioneered by Friedrich Kiesler back in the 30s and 40s and now realisable in the "multidimensional spatial experience" of computer aided designs like their Dream House together with the German digital urbanists Knowbotic Research on their networked topologies of their Tokyo10-dencies project."

—I-D, UK, May 1999