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Computer Architectures: Constructing the Common Ground book cover

1st Edition

Computer Architectures Constructing the Common Ground

Edited By Theodora Vardouli, Olga Touloumi Copyright 2020
244 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

244 Pages 34 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works unearthing sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20th century. Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, this book paints the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the... Read more

1. Introduction: Toward a Polyglot Space

Olga Touloumi & Theodora Vardouli

PART I PROGRAM

2. Computing Environmental Design

Peder Anker

3. The Work of Design and the Design of Work: Olivetti and the Political Economy of its Early Computers

AnnMarie Brennan

4. Bewildered, the Form-Maker Stands Alone: Computer Architecture and the Quest for Design Rationality

Theodora Vardouli

PART II INPUT/OUTPUT

5. Augmentation and Interface: Tracing a Spectrum

Molly Wright Steenson

6. The First Failure of Man-Computer Symbiosis: The Hospital Computer Project, 1960–1968

David Theodore

7. The Unclean Human-Machine Interface

Rachel Plotnick

PART III STORAGE

8. Architectures of Information: A Comparison of Wiener’s and Shannon’s Theories of Information

Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan

9. Bureaucracy’s Playthings

Shannon Mattern

PART IV COMPUTATION

10. Imagining Architecture as a Form of Concrete Poetry

Matthew Allen

11. The Axiomatic Aesthetic

Alma Steingart

Biography

Theodora Vardouli is Assistant Professor at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture, McGill University, Canada.





Olga Touloumi is Assistant Professor of Architectural History at Bard College, USA.

"This impressive collection brings together a stellar group of thinkers from diverse disciplinary traditions to explore the deeply intertwined histories of architecture and computation. It’s a model for studies of computation as a cultural, as well as technical, practice." -  Jennifer S. Light, Professor of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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