Eigenarchitecture

By Vera Buhlmann and Ludger Hovestadt

This book shifts the frame of reference for today's network- and structure oriented discussions from the applied computational tools of the 20th century back to the abstractness of 19th century mathematics. It re-reads George Boole, Richard Dedekind, Hermann Grassmann and Bernhard Riemann in a surprising manner. EigenArchitecture argues for a literacy of the digital, displacing the role of geometrical craftsmanship. Thus, architecture can be liberated from today's economical, technocratic and bureaucratic straight jackets: from physicalistic optimization, sociological balancing, and ideological naturalizations. The book comprises a programmatic text on the role of technology in architecture, a philosophical text on the generic and on algebraic articulation, and six exemplary projects by postgraduate students in 2012 at the Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3990436260
• ISBN13: 9783990436264
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Ambra Verlag
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.4" x 10.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary