Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
The Platonic Forehand and Backhand of Cybernetic Architecture. |
| Authors: |
Cifuentes Quin, Camilo Andrés1 cacifuentes@unisalle.edu.co |
| Source: |
Leonardo. Oct2019, Vol. 52 Issue 5, p429-434. 6p. |
| Subjects: |
Cybernetic art, Computer architecture, Architectural design, Reification, Information sharing, Shannon, Claude Elwood, 1916-2001 |
| Abstract: |
Since the 1960s, the field of digital architecture has been grounded on a computational practice of design, which has been inseparable from cybernetic constructions of architectural issues. The result of the former has been a common oscillation, in digital architectural practices, between the construction of design problems in reference to technoscientific notions and its construction as a reification of such resources. This article analyzes these aspects of digital architecture in reference to N.K. Hayles's vision of the construction of knowledge as a "seriation" and her conception of the "platonic forehand and backhand" in the work of scientists. Finally, the author identifies possible scenarios for a cybernetic practice of architecture that is not necessarily trapped in technocratic and reified visions of design issues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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