The Architecture of Intelligence"Throughout history we have lived in different spaces and architects, using different alphabets, have given them form: informal space, gestural and primitive, pre-Miletus (or pre-alphabet as de Kerckhove calls it); the space arterialized by the Greeks and Romans: the sacred and mystic space before Giotto; that perspective space of the Renaissance; the industrial and mechanical, analytical and non-perspective space after Cezanne. Each new space on arriving has required new principles and new alphabets that have been created through difficult, exhausting, rough but exciting processes. Today, the need for creating a new alphabet for the new information space is pressing. We can only begin to catch a glimpse of its characteristics. Like dolphins that take in oxygen to jump from the sea and follow ships and see the outlines of islands and coasts, a few pioneers are working in an attempt to define the possibilities and principles of precisely this new space. This book will help you join in this search."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
Contents
preface by Antonino Saggio | 5 |
1 The Inventions of Space | 7 |
2 Cyberspace and Physical Space | 20 |
3 Cyberspace and Mental Space | 33 |
4 The Architecture of Connectivity | 50 |
5 Principles of Connected Architecture | 70 |
Inhabiting Media | 88 |
Notes | 91 |
Credits | 92 |
Common terms and phrases
allows alphabet Alphaworlds Anna Cicognani archi architects architecture of intelligence areas basic body brain building cellular phone Char Davies cities cognitive commonspace concept connected architecture contents create cultural cyberception cyberspace cybertects cybertectural database Ddek device Doug Engelbart dynamic effect electricity electronic environment European Place global grid hemi-fields Hippodamos Humberto Maturana hypertext images imagination immersion infrastructure interactive interconnection interface Internet ISBN Kerckhove kind Lars Spuybroek Lawrence Lessig Lessig levels literate Marc Ngui Marcos Novak Margaret Wertheim Maurice Benayoun McLuhan mental space metaphor navigation networks nodes objective on-line perspective Peter Anders Peter Marshall physical space point-of-view principle Rafael Lozano-Hemmer real space relationship retrievable Roy Ascott screen search engines sensors skin social spatial structure tactile Tim Berners-Lee tion Virtual Reality virtual space visual Vitruvius William Mitchell wired words