ARCHITECTURE AS A MEDIA CATALYST

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. DISAPPEARING ARCHITECTURE. FROM REAL TO VIRTUAL TO QUANTUM 10
3. PART ONE. THE INFRASTRUCTURE
4. AFTER THE REVOLUTION. INSTRUMENTS OF DISPLACEMENT 18
5. THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE MULTIVERSE 24
6. AUTONOMIC COMPUTING. BUILDING SELF-MANAGING COMPUTING SYSTEMS 32
7. GRID COMPUTING. BASIS OF MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS 42
8. UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING. COMPUTATION EMBEDDED IN THE WORLD 52
9. THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTUM HARDWARE FOR QUANTUM COMPUTING 62
10. PART ZERO. THE ARCHITECTURE
11. CONSTRUCTING AN AUTHENTIC ARCHITECTURE OF THE DIGITAL ERA 80
12. A NEW KIND OF BUILDING 90
13. IMPLOSION OF NUMBERS. PERFORMATIVE MIXED REALITY 118
14. CYBERNARIUM. A MIXED-REALITY EDUTAINMENT CENTER 132
15. T_VISIONARIUM. TOWARDS A DIALOGIC CONCEPT OF DIGITAL NARRATIVE 144
16. ENHANCING SPATIALITY. FROM HARDWARE TO SOFTFORM 152
17. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND VIRTUAL MEDIA 162
18. ARCHITECTURE AS A MEDIA CATALYST 174
19. ARCHITECTURE AS A HABITABLE MEDIUM 184
20. IMPACT OF NETWORK LOGIC ON SPACE AND ITS MAKING 196
21. NETWORK PRACTICE AND THE PRODUCTS OF NETWORKING 206
22. PROTOSPACE 2.0. THE ITC-DRIVEN COLLABORATIVE DESIGN WORKING SPACE 218
23. ENTERING AN AGE OF FLUIDITY 236
24. SUMMING UP
25. FROM BOX TO INTERSECTION. ARCHITECTURE AT THE CROSSROADS 250
26. BUILDING TERMINAL. FOR AN ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT OBJECTNESS 258
27. ARCHITECTURE. FROM LOCATION TO NONLOCATION, FROM PRESENCETO ABSENCE 264
28. Backmatter 272