Interactive Architecture

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Architecture

ISBN: 9781568988368
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 256 pages
17,8 x 22,9 cm
colour
September 2009
€38,00 (excl. VAT)

Interactive Architecture

Michael Fox, Miles Kemp

Interactive Architecture is a processes-oriented guide to creating dynamic spaces and objects capable of performing a range of pragmatic and humanistic functions. These complex physical interactions are made possible by the fusion of embedded computation (intelligence) with a physical, tangible counterpart (kinetics). A uniquely 21st-century toolbox and skill set – virtual and physical modeling, sensor technology, CNC fabrication, prototyping, and robotics – necessitates collaboration across many diverse scientific and art-based communities.

Interactive Architecture includes contributions from the worlds of architecture, industrial design, computer programming, engineering, and physical computing. These remarkable projects run the gamut in size and complexity. Full-scale built examples include a house in Colorado that programs itself by observing the lifestyle of the inhabitants, and then learns to anticipate and accommodate their needs.

Interactive Architecture examines this vanguard movement from all sides, including its sociological and psychological implications as well as its potentially beneficial environmental impact.