Overview
Towarda Living Architecture?examines the emerging field of generative architecture and its nexus withcomputation, biology, and complexity. Based on Christina Cogdell's field researchin architecture studios and biological labs, this book critiques generativearchitecture by evaluating its scientific rhetoric and disjunction from actualscientific theory and practice, definitively explaining the role of the naturalsciences within contemporary architecture.
Full Product Details
Author: Christina Cogdell
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.80cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 25.40cm
ISBN: 9781517905378
ISBN 10: 1517905370
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 01 January 2019
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Christina Cogdell's soberly scholarly book shows that high-tech evolutionary or generative design is environmentally unsustainable, and that many (fortunately, not all) of today's computational bio-designers are selling, or buying, fake science. Who is to blame for this colossal, and possibly ominous, waste of intelligence and resources? Cogdell has one prime culprit in mind.""—Mario Carpo, University College London ""Toward a Living Architecture? is a timely meditation into the hype and hope of the fantasy of generative architecture—a field in which biological metaphors are taken literally and the complexities of living systems are brushed away in favor of simplistic illusions of control. Christina Cogdell is a phenomenal researcher who does not shy away from engaging in deep and experiential investigative field work in diverse settings; delving into scientific labs, studios, and knowledge systems, she presents a clear and reasoned argument for the need for a more nuanced and rigorous integration of the life science and architecture than the model currently presented by generative architecture discourse.""—Oron Catts, University of Western Australia"
Christina Cogdell's soberly scholarly book shows that high-tech evolutionary or generative design is environmentally unsustainable, and that many (fortunately, not all) of today's computational bio-designers are selling, or buying, fake science. Who is to blame for this colossal, and possibly ominous, waste of intelligence and resources? Cogdell has one prime culprit in mind. -Mario Carpo, University College London Toward a Living Architecture? is a timely meditation into the hype and hope of the fantasy of generative architecture-a field in which biological metaphors are taken literally and the complexities of living systems are brushed away in favor of simplistic illusions of control. Christina Cogdell is a phenomenal researcher who does not shy away from engaging in deep and experiential investigative field work in diverse settings; delving into scientific labs, studios, and knowledge systems, she presents a clear and reasoned argument for the need for a more nuanced and rigorous integration of the life science and architecture than the model currently presented by generative architecture discourse. -Oron Catts, University of Western Australia
Author Information
Christina Cogdell is professor of design and department chair at the University of California, Davis. She is author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s, winner of the Edelstein Prize for the History of Technology.
