Automatic Architecture: Motivating Form After Modernism

by Sean Keller

In the 1960s and '70s, architects, influenced by recent developments in computing and the rise of structuralist and poststructuralist thinking, began to radically rethink how architecture could be created. Though various new approaches gained favor, they had one thing in common: they advocated moving away from the traditional reliance on an individual architect's knowledge and instincts and toward the use of external tools and processes that were...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022649649X
• ISBN13: 9780226496498
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.2" x 10.1"