Artifice And Design
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Artifice And Design
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Author : Barry Allen
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-15
Artifice And Design written by Barry Allen and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
"As familiar and widely appreciated works of modern technology, bridges are a good place to study the relationship between the aesthetic and the technical. Fully engaged technical design is at once aesthetic and structural. In the best work (the best design, the most well made), the look and feel of a device (its aesthetic, perceptual interface) is as important a part of the design problem as its mechanism (the interface of parts and systems). We have no idea how to make something that is merely efficient, a rational instrument blindly indifferent to how it appears. No engineer can design such a thing and none has ever been built."—from Artifice and Design In an intriguing book about the aesthetics of technological objects and the relationship between technical and artistic accomplishment, Barry Allen develops the philosophical implications of a series of interrelated concepts-knowledge, artifact, design, tool, art, and technology-and uses them to explore parallel questions about artistry in technology and technics in art. This may be seen at the heart of Artifice and Design in Allen's discussion of seven bridges: he focuses at length on two New York bridges—the Hell Gate Bridge and the Bayonne Bridge—and makes use of original sources for insight into the designers' ideas about the aesthetic dimensions of their work. Allen starts from the conviction that art and technology must be treated together, as two aspects of a common, technical human nature. The topics covered in Artifice and Design are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, drawing from evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and the history and anthropology of art and technology. The book concludes that it is a mistake to think of art as something subjective, or as an arbitrary social representation, and of Technology as an instrumental form of purposive rationality. "By segregating art and technology," Allen writes, "we divide ourselves against ourselves, casting up self-made obstacles to the ingenuity of art and technology."
What S Wrong With Plastic Trees
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Author : Martin Krieger
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2000-04-30
What S Wrong With Plastic Trees written by Martin Krieger and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-04-30 with Art categories.
Krieger revisits the ideas of his now infamous article of some thirty years ago in Science magazine. His aim is to give an account of design, one that experienced designers will say,'Yes, That's just what it is like!' At the same time, Krieger offers an analysis of the tensions that design operates within; between perfection and contingency, between wholes and parts, between the talk we make about the world and the world itself. Krieger takes design—in architecture, landscape, interiors, engineering, and in systems and computer science—to be modeled by traditional theological and artistic problems. And here, he claims, design has traditionally been a redesign of nature. For nature is, as Durkheim would describe it, a totem. Our collective ritual devotion to it allows us to enliven or animate it, and so it may animate us as well. Curiously, much of design and discourse about it now takes place in the computer software engineering world, especially among those concerned with patterns and object- oriented programming. In developing a notion of plastic trees, Krieger probes just what could be wrong with such artifices. As he illustrates, what we call nature is almost always a product of deliberate design. It is as if people make discoveries in exploration, discoveries of places already occupied aboriginally. In essence, he asserts what we actually have is a virtual authenticity, more real than any original could possibly be—since the original was never meant to be sacralized or featured in our lives. A provocative analysis that scholars and students of architecture and planning, environmental studies, engineering and computer science will find stimulating.
Artifice
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Author : Jonathan Hill
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Artifice written by Jonathan Hill and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Architectural design categories.
Artifice
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Author : Duncan McCorquodale
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Artifice written by Duncan McCorquodale and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Art, Modern categories.
Artifice
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Author : Simon Canz
language : en
Publisher: Black Dog Architecture
Release Date : 2011
Artifice written by Simon Canz and has been published by Black Dog Architecture this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Architecture categories.
Artifice: Dermot Foley Landscape Architects is the first comprehensive volume about the Irish architectural practice Dermot Foley Landscape Architects. Since its inception in 2001, Dermot Foley Landscape Architects has developed an enviable amount of successful projects from an impressive list of clients, contributing its own distinctive voice to the rapidly evolving Irish landscape as well as to a number of locations beyond Ireland. This beautifully designed volume celebrates ten years of Dermot Foley by reflecting on some of the most emblematic projects developed by its vibrant team, but even more poignantly, by unveiling the practice's underlying design ethic. This publication is therefore more ambitious than a general catalogue of work; it presents, rather, an analysis of the ideas and themes that have emerged through the collective interactions between Dermot Foley's varied team of architects, designers, urban planners and horticulturists, and which have informed Dermot Foley's projects to date. This volume reflects the holistic approach to landscape design that has been at the basis of the practice's projects and offers new insights into this multi-award winning firm. Artifice includes essays by theorists and practitioners such as Krystallia Kamvasinou, Simon Canz and Dermot Foley himself, providing expert reflections on the practice's approach to landscape as well as its impact on the nature and future development of the Irish built environment. ILLUSTRATIONS 176 colour & b/w illustrations
The Necessity Of Artifice
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
The Necessity Of Artifice written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982 with categories.
In Residence Diary Con Dvd Ediz Italiana E Inglese Se
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Author : Barbara Brondi
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
In Residence Diary Con Dvd Ediz Italiana E Inglese Se written by Barbara Brondi and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Design categories.
Dopo la prima edizione dedicata al tema "Nature Through Artifice", il progetto "IN Residence" focalizza la sua attenzione sulla materialità, indagandone caratteri e criticità attraverso un laboratorio partecipato intitolato "Matter Matters". La formula dell'evento è quella sperimentata con successo nel corso del primo appuntamento: un workshop tra giovani designer internazionali di talento e ancor più giovani studenti che, lavorando a stretto contatto per alcuni giorni, animano un contraddittorio dialogico ricco e stimolante. Il contesto ambientale rimane quello del "Du Parc Residence" di Torino, edificio di grande pregio architettonico progettato nei primi anni Settanta dagli architetti Laura Petrazzini e Corrado Levi.
The Sumerian Device The Book Of The Artifice And Design
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Author : Bryan Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09-02
The Sumerian Device The Book Of The Artifice And Design written by Bryan Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-02 with categories.
This is the first and second installments of a longer tale called The Sumerian Device, a story that bridges the gap between the normal and the paranormal without relying on the supernatural.So what is Anzillu? That is a question pondered at length in bars near docks all throughout the inhabited systems of the verse. The Demon of Deep Space, some call it. They speak about it the way ancient people used to talk about sea monsters or dragons, in hushed voices and never with less than a set of drinks in their bellies. Most of the stories come second or third hand and describe impossible, even paranormal happenings. Skeptics balk at such talk, claiming that the tales are tall, that it's nothing more than some marvel of technology no one's figured out yet, but those that have seen someone recount their encounter first hand know what its like to look into the eyes of someone who has come to the end of what they can understand. So what is Anzillu? The only true answer anyone ever gives comes from those that have seen it first hand. 'I don't know.'In The Book of the Artifice and Design we join a universe where the major governments are gone and planets and space stations govern themselves, reverting existence to simpler, albeit more dangerous, form. Space is hard for a human, you see, as we are not meant to be there. But then, isn't that part of the allure?Most people would say that, aside from pirates, slavers, and poverty, things have been quiet since the war, but things are about to change. Storms are brewing across the vast black of space, and a chance encounter between a brilliant young man and the thing called Anzillu is about to trigger a series of events that will resonate throughout the systems of the verse. Much is unclear as of now, but one thing that's certain is that things are about to change. Though is it for the better, or the worse? Spaced throughout these systems of the verse is a collection of characters with agendas ranging from the simple acquisition of wealth or power, to the seeking of true knowledge, while some just want a bit of good old fashion revenge. And there's one who has a far more sinister desire.But who is good and who is bad? Or maybe the real question is what is good, and what should bad be? Of course if you think the important question is what is The Sumerian Device and what does it do... well then this series might just be right up your alley, so to speak. The only way to discover that, however, is to follow us down the wormhole, but remember that you've been warned. We're all mad down here.The Book of The Artifice and Design is the first stretch of road on a journey that will lead a group of characters capable of amazing, seemingly impossible things, to challenge everything they think they know about the nature of the universe, the whole of existence, and themselves.
Manifestes 5 Design Under Artifice Creation At The Risk Of
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Author : Anthony Masure
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-04-24
Manifestes 5 Design Under Artifice Creation At The Risk Of written by Anthony Masure and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-24 with categories.
The Aesthetics Of Artifice
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Author : Marie Lathers
language : en
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies
Release Date : 1996
The Aesthetics Of Artifice written by Marie Lathers and has been published by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Romance Studies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with categories.
Drawing on feminist and psychoanalytic theory, this study exposes the ideological foundations of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's L'Eve Future, a late 19th-century revision of the Genesis story. Villier's future Eve, who owes her life to man's manipulation of sculptural techniques, photography, and film, symbolizes the complex conjunction of literature, art, technology, and the feminine in the late 19th century. The novel thus charts modernity's restructuring of traditional aesthetics to accommodate the age of mechanical reproduction. The female body becomes the locus of this manifesto of technology, producing a discourse on artificiality and and the feminine which Lathers's study exposes in detail. It also relates this monstrous tale to other versions of woman's fabrication in this and the last century, and interrogates theories of the aesthetic, the technological, and the feminine from Hegel and Baudelaire to Benjamin and Barthes. It is a contribution to current debate centering on the construction of gender and its place in literature and art.