Digitalia

Architecture and the Digital, the Environmental and the Avant-Garde

Susannah Hagan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000155389
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

Susannah Hagan boldly discusses the fraught relationship between key dominating areas of architectural discourse - digital design, environmental design, and avant-garde design.

Digitalia firstly demonstrates that drawing such firm lines between architectural spheres is damaging and foolish, particularly as both environmental and avant-garde practices are experimenting with the digital, and secondly remonstrates with an avant-garde that has repudiated the social/ethical agenda of the modernist avant-garde because it failed the first time round. It is environmental architecture that has picked up the social/ethical ball and is running with it, using the digital to very different, and more far-reaching, ends.

As the debates rage, this book is a key read for all who are involved or intrigued.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Deep background
• 2 The avant-garde: autonomous or engaged?
• 3 The autonomous avant-garde and the digital: from formalism to nature
• 4 The engaged avant-garde and the digital: from nature to environmental design
• 5 The avant-garde: meeting in the city
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Illustration credits
• Index