Contagious Architecture: Computation, Aesthetics, and Space

by Luciana Parisi

Book Overview

A proposal that algorithms are not simply instructions to be performed but thinking entities that construct digital spatio-temporalities.

In Contagious Architecture, Luciana Parisi offers a philosophical inquiry into the status of the algorithm in architectural and interaction design. Her thesis is that algorithmic computation is not simply an abstract mathematical tool but constitutes a mode of thought in its own right, in that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262546655
• ISBN13: 9780262546652
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher