Beauty Matters
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Beauty Matters

Human Judgement and the Pursuit of New Beauties in Post-Digital Architecture

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Beauty Matters

Human Judgement and the Pursuit of New Beauties in Post-Digital Architecture

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About This Book

Beauty in architecture matters again. This issue of AD posits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back. This is evidenced by a current cultural shift from the supposedly objective to an emerging trust in the subjective – a renewed fascination for aesthetics supported by new knowledge emanating simultaneously from disparate disciplines.

Digital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term 'post-digital' was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition.

The issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the international architects, in both practice and academe, who are generating new aesthetics.

Contributors: Alisa Andrasek, Izaskun Chinchilla, Marjan Colletti, Peter Cook, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Winka Dubbeldam, David Garcia, Graham Harman, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, Alan Powers, Gilles Retsin, Kristina Schinegger and Stefan Rutzinger, Fleur Watson and Martyn Hook and Semir Zeki.

Featured architects: Archi-Tectonics, ecoLogicStudio, NaJa & deOstos, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA, soma architecture, Studio Gang, John Wardle Architects and Tom Wiscombe Architecture.

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Publisher
Wiley
Year
2019
ISBN
9781119546283
Edition
1
Topic
Architecture
Subtopic
Architecture General

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Copyright Page
  5. About theGuest-Editor
  6. Introduction: Architecture and Beauty A Symbiotic Relationship
  7. Beauty in Architecture: Not a Luxury – Only a Necessity
  8. Truth and Beauty: The Role of Aesthetics in Mathematics and Physics
  9. The Return of Beauty: Driving a Wedge Between Objects and Qualities
  10. Abstraction and Informality Generate a New Aesthetic
  11. New Solids and Massive Forms
  12. Which Beauty Will Guide Us?: Seeking a Reflective, Sustainable, Socially Engaged Visual Culture
  13. Chromatic Compositions: Design Dissonance and the Aesthetic of Fusion
  14. Beauty as Ecological Intelligence: Bio-digital Aesthetics as a Value System of Post-Anthropocene Architecture
  15. The Primacy of Relationships and the Reclamation of Beauty: Jeanne Gang: Observed and Interviewed
  16. The Geometry of Seduction: Considerations of Beauty from Noun to Verb
  17. A Specific Theory of Models: The Posthuman Beauty of Weird Scales, Snowglobes and Supercomponents
  18. Ambiguous, Bipolar Beauty: And Similarly Agile and Fragile Post-Digital Practices
  19. Deep Immediacy: Programming Beauty
  20. Beauty is in the Back Story: Diversity, Complexity and Collaborative Making in the Australian Condition
  21. In Search of the Unseen: Towards Superhuman Intuition
  22. In Part Whole: The Aesthetics of the Discrete
  23. Counterpoint: ‘A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet’ Finding Beauty in the Past Century
  24. Contributors
  25. EULA