Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground

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Theodora Vardouli (Massachusetts Instiute of Technology, USA) Olga Touloumi (Bard College, USA)

Computer Architectures

Constructing the Common Ground

Theodora Vardouli (Massachusetts Instiute of Technology, USA), Olga Touloumi (Bard College, USA)

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English

Routledge
30 June 2021

Theory of architecture; History of architecture; Engineering: general; Technical design; Computer-aided design (CAD)

Series: Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society

Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works unearthing sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20th century.

Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, this book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development. The book is organized into sections corresponding to the classic von Neumann diagram for computer architecture: program (control unit), storage (memory), input/output and computation (arithmetic/logic unit), each acting as a quasi-material category for parsing debates among architects, engineers, mathematicians, and technologists. Collectively, authors bring forth the striking homologies between a computer program and an architectural program, a wall and an interface, computer memory and storage architectures, structures of mathematics and structures of things. The collection initiates new histories of knowledge and technology production that turn an eye toward disciplinary fusions and their institutional and intellectual drives.

Constructing the common ground between design and computing, this collection addresses audiences working at the nexus of design, technology, and society, including historians and practitioners of design and architecture, science and technology scholars, and media studies scholars.

Edited by: Theodora Vardouli (Massachusetts Instiute of Technology USA), Olga Touloumi (Bard College, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9781032085685
ISBN 10: 1032085681
Series: Routledge Research in Design, Technology and Society
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 30 June 2021
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Theodora Vardouli is Assistant Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada. Olga Touloumi is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Bard College, USA.

Reviews for Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground

This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It's a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice. - Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology