Architectural Materialisms: Nonhuman Creativity

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Maria Voyatzaki
Edinburgh University Press, Aug 25, 2020 - Architecture - 336 pages

This book gathers 14 architects, designers, performing artists, film makers, media theorists, philosophers, mathematicians and programmers. They all argue that matter in contemporary posthuman times has to be rethought in its rich internal dynamism and its multifaceted context. By transversally crossing disciplinary boundaries, new and profound insights into contemporary thinking and creating architecture emerge. Combining the dynamism of materiality and the capacities of nonhuman machines towards prototyping spatiotemporal designs and constructs leads to alternative conceptions of the human, of ethics, aesthetics and politics in this world yet-to-come.

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About the author (2020)

Maria Voyatzaki (Vogiatzaki) is an architect and Professor of Architecture, Anglia Ruskin University, UK and a Professor of Architectural Design and Technology, School of Architecture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a PhD from the University of Bath, UK. She is the chief editor of peer-reviewed e-archidoct Journal. She has been involved in the European Association for Architectural Education as a Council Member and was the Coordinator of the European Network of Design and Technology Teachers.

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