Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence...

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Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa

Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information

From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Theory of architecture; Architecture: professional practice; History of architecture; Computing: general; Artificial intelligence

This book proposes a new critical relationship between computation and architecture, developing a history and theory of representation in architecture to understand and unleash potential means to open up creativity in the field.

Historically, architecture has led to spatial representation. Today, computation has established new representational paradigms that can be compared to spatial representations, such as the revolution of perspective in the Renaissance. Architects now use software, robotics, and fabrication tools with very little understanding and participation in how these tools influence, revolutionize, and determine both architecture and its construction today. Why does the discipline of architecture not have a higher degree of authorship in the conception and development of computational technologies that define spatial representation? This book critically explores the relationship between history, theory, and cultural criticism. Lorenzo-Eiroa positions new understandings through parallel historical sections and theories of many revolutionary representational architecture canons displaced by conventional spatial projection. He identifies the architects, artists, mathematicians, and philosophers that were able to revolutionize their disciplines through the development of new technologies, new systems of representation, and new lenses to understand reality. This book frames the discussion by addressing new means to understand and expand architecture authorship in relation to the survey, information, representation, higher dimensional space, Big Data, and Artificial Intelligence – in the pursuit of activating an architecture of information.

This will be important reading for upper-level students and researchers of architecture and architectural theory, especially those with a keen interest in computational design and robotic fabrication.

By: Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 1.480kg
ISBN: 9781032272689
ISBN 10: 1032272686
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa is the Founder of e-Architects.net, Director of the AI Lab, and Associate Professor at the New York Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Design. He co-edited Architecture In:Formation, Routledge, 2013.

Reviews for Digital Signifiers in an Architecture of Information: From Big Data and Simulation to Artificial Intelligence

This theoretical and experimental approach proposes in the book the definition of a new architectural signifier, a digital signifier . Summoning Derrida's economy of language, the author intends to reform the tools of architecture to develop an architecture of architectures . In addition to the historical panorama, the work contributes to modeling the logical laws which, from Aristotle to Leibniz's Characteristica Universalis, determine the ontological conditions of the relationship between what appears and what one can know and what one can express. From then on, we understand the continual critical rapprochement between data and signifiers, and between information and representation.'' - Alexis A. Meier, Phd, Prof. INSA Strasbourg