Volume #32 of "The IT Revolution in Architecture", this book dedicated to François Roche and his group, raises questions of great importance for the development of architecture. What role can new material technologies have in a process in which the same materials have incorporated growing shares of active behaviors? For example, will they be self-cleaning, un-polluting, self-changing? To what extent will the various components of the buildings be increasingly "interconnected" and able to simulate processes typical of living systems, such as transpiration, dilation, growth, life, and death? Can we begin to speak of living "systems" in architecture? Antonino Di Raimo, PhD works with issues relating to IT and cognition, ecology, and the body. He serves as the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Polis University, Tirana. Founder and editor of the book series before with Birkhäuser and Testo&Immagine and now with Edilstampa, is Antonino Saggio. www.arc1.Uniroma1.it/Saggio/IT/
Information Technology is imposing itself as the central paradigm for a new phase in all of architecture; the dynamic interconnections at the heart of IT are being transferred from the world of digital models to the reality of a reactive, sensitive, interactive architecture. The structure chosen for this book was to avoid a "crib sheet" on the "IT Revolution in Architecture." The formula of the "treatise" was just as impossible to use not only because many aspects of contemporary scientific research are oriented toward a structure that remains intentionally open and serves to launch new hypotheses rather than solidify certainties, but also because this aspect is reinforced by the material that by its nature finds itself in an free, interconnected, intrinsically problematic dimension.
The Instrument of Caravaggio shows that the use of the camera obscura is not only a technical device but a profound challenge for a new revolutionary vision.Translation by Rebecca Guarda
Il volume propone progetti innovativi, ma realizzabili per Roma e offre un contributo al dibattito architettonico e urbanistico della città. Il ruolo della società delle informazioni nel contesto delle città contemporanea è affrontato insieme a trenta progetti raggruppati attorno a dieci temi forti: le infrastrutture, le nuove istituzioni, la storia, le nuove marginalità, l'ambiente, l'informazione e l'elettronica, lo studio, lo sport e gli spazi ludici, le arti e il cinema, il brand. Sfogliando il libro, il lettore si troverà immerso in un mondo nuovo, stimolante e del tutto possibile: anzi, alcuni dei progetti qui proposti, stanno già vedendo la luce. Oltre a Saggio il libro si deve gli architetti Mammucari, Mastroianni, Mazza e Principia.
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