Digitalia: Architecture and the Digital, the Environmental and the Avant-Garde

By Susannah Hagan

Susannah Hagan boldly discusses the fraught relationship between key dominating areas of architectural discourse - digital design, environmental design, and avant-garde design.

Digitalia firstly demonstrates that drawing such firm lines between architectural spheres is damaging and foolish, particularly as both environmental and avant-garde practices are experimenting with the digital, and secondly remonstrates with an avant-garde that has repudiated the social/ethical agenda of the modernist avant-garde because it failed the first time round. It is environmental architecture that has picked up the social/ethical ball and is running with it, using the digital to very different, and more far-reaching, ends.

As the debates rage, this book is a key read for all who are involved or intrigued.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415395461
• ISBN13: 9780415395465
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 8.2"