The Weight of the Image: Teaching Design and Computing in Architecture

by Lars Spuybroek

For the first time in history, thanks to computer-aided design, architects have been able to move from a top-down vision to a more organic, bottom-up vision. The 'insect-view' model developed by the ancient Greeks (projecting a grid onto the face of the earth) is the most enduring example of this top-down order, modified somewhat by Renaissance perspective and then by Modernist collage. Now, in the era of cyber-design, architects at last have the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9056621688
• ISBN13: 9789056621681
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Nai010 Publishers
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.3" x 8.3"