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  • Rosalyn Deutsche

    Not-Forgetting. Contemporary Art and the Interrogation of…

  • Rafi Segal, Marisa Morán Jahn

    Design & Solidarity. Conversations on Collective…

  • 51N4E (Hg.)

    How to not demolish a Building

  • Morten Paul

    Suhrkamp Theorie. Eine Buchreihe im philosophischen…

  • David Vaner, Ilka Ruby (Hg.)

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  • Helen Thomas (Ed.)

    Architecture in Islamic Countries. Selections from the…

  • Carolin Amlinger, Oliver Nachtwey

    Gekränkte Freiheit. Aspekte des libertären Autoritarismus

  • Nicholas Mirzoeff

    White Sight. Visual Politics and Practices of Whiteness

  • Brandon LaBelle (Ed.)

    Radical Sympathy

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    Earth and Beyond in Tumultuous Times. A Critical Atlas of…

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  • Chris Lee

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  • common room, Cornelia Escher

    Negotiating Ungers 2 - The Oberhausen Institute and the…

  • Gülşah Stapel

    Recht auf Erbe in der Migrationsgesellschaft

  • James Bridle

    Die unfassbare Vielfalt des Seins

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    New Extractivism

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    Designing for Interdependence. A Poetics of Relating

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    More Posthuman Glossary

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    Art Rebellion. The Aesthetics of Social Transformation

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    Design History Beyond the Canon

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    Designing Cultures of Care

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  • Craig Martin

    Deviant Design. The Ad Hoc, the Illicit, the Controversial

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    From Commons to NFTs

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  • Nicolas Dorval Bory, Guillaume Ramillien

    Visible, Invisible

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    From Printing to Streaming. Cultural Production under…

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    Passing Images. Kunst in post-digitalen Zeiten

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    Democracy in the Political Present. A Queer-Feminist Theory

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    Parallel Minds. Discovering the Intelligence of Materials

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    Good night the pleasure was ours.

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    What World Is This? A Pandemic Phenomenology

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    The Everyday Life of Memorials

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    Dekoloniale Kunstgeschichte. Eine methodische Einführung

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    The Black Technical Object. On Machine Learning and the…

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    Science Studies Meets Colonialism

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    The Invention of Green Colonialism

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Archaeology of the Digital

With text by and interviews with Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Benjamin Gianni, Chuck Hoberman, Greg Lynn, Kenshi Oda, Bill Record, Rick Smith, Tensho Takemori, Joe Tanney, Chris Yessios, Shoei Yoh, Mirko Zardini
Archaeology of the Digital delves into the genesis and establishment of digital tools for design conceptualization, visualization, and production at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. Conceived as an object-based investigation of four pivotal projects that established distinct directions in architecture’s use of digital tools, the book highlights the dialogue between computer sciences, architecture and engineering that was at the core of these experiments.
The Lewis Residence by Frank Gehry (1989–95) was prescient in exploring the power of computer rationalization in describing and fabricating sculptural tectonic elements. On the other hand, Peter Eisenman’s Biozentrum (1987) tested the computer’s ability to generate its own formal language. A vanguard attempt to digitally script the design process, the Biozentrum’s geometries emerge from abstract representations of DNA structures, manipulated through processes intended to simulate genome replication. The scaffold-like lines of Shoei Yoh’s unbuilt Odawara Municipal Sports Complex (1990–91) wood truss ceiling and constructed gymnasium Galaxy Toyama (1990–92) were verified for integrity by computer analysis, using intensive coding and virtual testing to advance a language of minimalist structural expressionism. Chuck Hoberman’s Expanding Sphere (1992) is a finely-tuned folding polyhedron that smoothly expands and contracts, opening the way to later explorations in responsive and adaptive architecture.
This volume includes conversations with the architects and key collaborators in each of the featured projects—architects, engineers, software programmers and university researchers whose interests in these nascent technologies were evident in their own practices. Each project is then presented through a selection of archival material, conveying factual and concrete information on their development through this material history.
Copublished with the Canadian Centre for Architecture
Design by Katja Gretzinger


Greg Lynn (Ed.)
Archaeology of the Digital
Sternberg Press, 2013, 978-3-943365-80-1