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Today, after the digital revolution of the 2000s, which radically redefined architectural production conditions, a new generation of artists, architects and designers is developing a praxis at the crossroads of computer science, engineering, and biology.
By permitting the exploration of evolitive principles peculiar to the living world, digital simulation tools are opening up an unprecedented area of investigation. Henceforth architecture is involved in ‘matter’, which is turning out to be both effective and capable of doing away with the distinction between nature and artifice, ushering in a new order of hybridization.
How are we to think about this new ecology of design, a condition that is as architectural as it is political and cultural, within which nature and architecture merge? Structured in four parts (Rustic, Geometric, Organic and Ecophysics), this is the question that the 2013 this publication intend to answer with the authors and the projects of forty international architects, artists and designers currently at the forefront of scientific innovation, a series of hitherto unpublished essays, backed up by outstanding illustrative material, lends perspective to the historical, aesthetic, and philosophical challenges of this ‘naturalized architecture’ on every scale.
With texts from: Marie-Ange Brayer, Frédéric Migayrou, Franck Varenne, Giuseppe Longo et Nabil Zakhama, Rivka Oxman, Annick Lesne, Graham Harman, Lambros Malafouris.
296 pages, ills colour / 24 x 28 cm / English, French
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