ABSTRACT

This visually stunning, conceptually rich and imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions of what the architectural image means today.

Within the book's visually imaginative design framework, Abstract Space engages discourses from architecture, visual and cultural studies to computer science and communications technology to present an in-depth multi-media case study. Tracing a provisional history of the topic, the book also lends a provocative and multivalent understanding to the complex relations affecting the architectural image today.

chapter |3 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|17 pages

Architecture + abstraction

Topologies of new media

chapter 2|15 pages

Architectural modes of seeing

Visual theory and technologies

chapter 3|23 pages

Formulating abstraction

Conceptual art and the architectural object

chapter 4|23 pages

Mapping absence

Architectural contingencies

chapter 5|27 pages

Generative systems

Evolving computational strategies

chapter 6|21 pages

Formal matters

The virtual as a generative process

chapter 7|8 pages

The status of the architectural image