Digital culture in architecture : an introduction for the design professions / Antoine Picon.

Introduction -- People, computers and architecture: a historical overview : the emergence of the society of information ; The rise of computer epistemology ; Cybernetics in architecture and planning; patterns, systems and networks ; The formalist turn in postmodernism and critical theory ; Digital culture, space and sociability ; Architecture as interface -- Experiments in form and performance : The education of innovative geometries ; Diagramming complexity ; The surface of architecture ; From animation to algorithmics ; Intricate or minimalist elegance? ; Digital age subjectivity, performance and meaning -- From tectonic to ornament: towards a different materiality : Contemporary technology as landscape ; The crisis of scale and tectonic ; from memory to oblivion ; reinventing ornament ; A different materiality ; Materials by design ; Design strategies and professional perspectives ; Will robotization take command? -- The city in the digital sprawl : Urban features in the digital age ; A city of individuals ; An augmented urban reality ; Events, simulations and scenarios ; Towards a splintered city? -- Conclusion : Material continuity and the design practice.