Flowcharting From Abstractionism to Algorithmics in Art and Architecture
By the time the computer arrived on the architectural scene, its place had been prepared by decades of avant-gardist experimentation. The modernist program of rationalizing creative practice took a decidedly bureaucratic turn between two generations of constructivists in the 1930s and 1960s. From Pa...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Zurich
gta Verlag
2023
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| Series: | gta edition
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| Summary: | By the time the computer arrived on the architectural scene, its place had been prepared by decades of avant-gardist experimentation. The modernist program of rationalizing creative practice took a decidedly bureaucratic turn between two generations of constructivists in the 1930s and 1960s. From Paris to Cambridge, painters, poets, designers, and architects poured their energy into cracking the code of artistic genius in hopes of democratizing the creation of better environments, thus stimulating a nascent repertoire of algorithmic techniques. The motivation to use these new techniques emerged from attempts to understand art and architecture through serial effects. By reformulating their disciplines in terms of flowcharting procedures developed in the field of scientific management, artists and architects enacted a paradigm shift that had long been a cherished dream of modernism, replacing composition with organization as the basis of design. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (156 p.) |
| ISBN: | gta/4616 978-385676-461-6 978-385676-445-6 |
| Access: | Open Access |