ARCHITECTURE
Neural Architecture Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Mathias Del Campo
Embracing Uncertainty Experiments in Making from the Chinese Countryside John Lin, Olivier Ottevaere, Donn Holohan
This book explores the interdisciplinary project that brings the long tradition of humanistic inquiry in architecture together with cutting-edge research in artificial intelligence. The main goal of Neural Architecture is to understand how to interrogate artificial intelligence - a technological tool - in the field of architectural design, traditionally a practice that combines humanities and visual arts.
The experiments in the book are a collection of design and build projects conducted from the Department of Architecture at the University of Hong Kong over the past 10 years and represent a direct reflection of the incredible diversity of climates, locations, and conditions that underlie the ongoing Chinese urbanisation experiment.
9781951541682 ORO Editions 229 x 178mm., 250pp., 120 col. November 2021, £21.95, Paperback
Creatures Are Stirring A Guide to Architectural Companionship Joseph Altshuler, Julia Sedlock Creatures Are Stirring is an optimistic manifesto that rescripts the anthropocentric narratives of Western architecture with new myths for a playfully compassionate and co-habitable future. The book reconceptualises buildings as our friends by amplifying architecture’s creaturely qualities— formal embellishments, fictional enhancements, and organisational strategies that suggest animal-like agency. 9781951541613 ORO Editions 254 x 178mm., 180pp. October 2021, £21.95, Paperback
9781954081185 ORO Editions 240 x 180mm., 216pp. November 2021, £25.95, Paperback
Blank Speculations on CLT Jennifer Bonner, Hanif Kara This book weaves a much needed and transformational narrative about making architecture through paying close attention to cross-laminated timber as a material for today. The potential to see the spatial properties of its use and what kind of world that might suggest is shown in the book, with selected striking visual materials. 9781954081024 ORO Editions 279 x 203mm., 240pp. October 2021, £37.00, Hardback
Posthuman Architectures A Catalogue of Archetypes Jacopo Leveratto Spatial design has long been seen as an action that could be performed by people and for people only. Today, even though some of the most meaningful projects of our times seem to challenge this concept, qualitative researches still struggle to emerge. This book collects and discusses archetypal models of posthuman architecture, from the cabin of Henry David Thoreau to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 9781954081215 ORO Editions 152 x 228mm., 250pp., 70 col. November 2021, £29.95, Paperback
Blue Papers Researches on Digitational Architecture Giuseppe Bono Blue Papers analyses the current digital turn in the architecture from multiple perspectives, raising awareness on its social and cultural implications and prefiguring the rise of an alternative and possible architecture, giving an engaging perspective on how the use of digital technologies is significantly changing the architectural discipline. 9781951541910 ORO Editions 147 x 210mm., 156pp., 40 col. September 2021, £18.95, Paperback
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