Instabilities and Potentialities

Instabilities and Potentialities Notes on the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture Edited by Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher with Michael Wen-Sen Su Table of Contents Introduction Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher - On the Nature of Knowledge in Digital Architecture Forewords Georges Teyssot – Gilbert Simondon’s Key Points Part 1. Images Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher – Images: Effect and Affect in the Digital Representation of Architecture Mark Linder – Episodes in the Emergence of Imaging Practices David Freeland and Brennan Buck – Objective Perspective Dana Cupkova – interview Viola Ago – The Line, the Drawings and the Model John Carpenter – Multispectral 4D imaging of heart formation and c-looping in Tg embryos Nicholas de Monchaux – The Complexity of Complexity, or, Life Attracts Life Part 2. Objects Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher - Objects: Topological evolution of the architectural entity Martin Bressani – In Medias Res: Atmospheres and Hauntings Volkan Alkanoglu – In Pursuit of Novel Form: Super Light Thom Mayne – interview Alvin Huang – Objects: Technology, Technique, Techné: Creation vs Contingency in Computational Design Pablo Lorenzo-Eiroa – Post-Digital as Design Authorship In Informed Material Processes Alessandra Ponte – Mapping in the Age of Electronic Shadows Part 3. Disciplines Chandler Ahrens & Aaron Sprecher – Disciplines: Transdisciplinarity and Potentialities Laurent Stalder – Machine/ Architecture Satoru Sugihara – Design Outside of the Frame: A Role of Architects in the Era of Artificial Intelligence Greg Lynn – interview Tom Shaked and Uri Dubin – Exercises in Style: A Transdisciplinary Discussion Jose Sanchez – From an Autopoietic to a Symbiopoietic Architecture Discipline Theodora Vardouli – Dissimilar at First Sight : Structural Abstraction and the Promises of Isomorphism in 1960s Architectural Theory Postscript Antoine Picon – Digital fabrication, Between disruption and nostalgia Biographies Index Acknowledgements