{"product_id":"beauty-matters-isbn-9781119546245","title":"Beauty Matters","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeauty in architecture matters again. This issue of \u003ci\u003eAD\u003c\/i\u003e posits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back. This is evidenced by a current cultural shift from the supposedly objective to an emerging trust in the subjective – a renewed fascination for aesthetics supported by new knowledge emanating simultaneously from disparate disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term 'post-digital' was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the international architects, in both practice and academe, who are generating new aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors:\u003c\/b\u003e Alisa Andrasek,Izaskun Chinchilla, Marjan Colletti, Peter Cook, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Winka Dubbeldam, David Garcia, Graham Harman, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, Alan Powers, Gilles Retsin, Kristina Schinegger and Stefan Rutzinger, Fleur Watson and Martyn Hook and Semir Zeki.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatured architects:\u003c\/b\u003e Archi-Tectonics, ecoLogicStudio, NaJa \u0026amp; deOstos, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa\/SANAA, soma architecture, Studio Gang, John Wardle Architects and Tom Wiscombe Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction Architecture and Beauty: A Symbiotic Relationship\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 2 Beauty in Architecture: Not a Luxury – Only a Necessity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 3 Truth and Beauty: The Role of Aesthetics in Mathematics and Physics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 4 The Return of Beauty: Driving a Wedge Between Objects and Qualities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 5 Abstraction and Informality Generate a New Aesthetic: An Interview with Kazuyo Sejima\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 6 New Solids and Massive Forms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 7 Which Beauty Will Guide Us? Seeking a Reflective, Sustainable, Socially Engaged Visual Culture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 8 Chromatic Compositions: Design Dissonance and the Aesthetic of Fusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 9 Beauty as Ecological Intelligence: Bio-digital Aesthetics as a Value System of Post-Anthropocene Architecture\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 10 The Primacy of Relationships and the Reclamation of Beauty – Jeanne Gang: Observed and Interviewed\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 11 The Geometry of Seduction: Considerations of Beauty from Noun to Verb\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 12 A Specific Theory of Models: The Posthuman Beauty of Weird Scales, Snowglobes and Supercomponents\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 13 Ambiguous, Bipolar Beauty: And Similarly Agile and Fragile Post-Digital Practices\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 14 Deep Immediacy: Programming Beauty\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 15 Beauty is in the Back Story: Diversity, Complexity and Collaborative Making in the Australian Condition – In Conversation with John Wardle\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 16 In Search of the Unseen: Towards Superhuman Intuition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 17 In Part Whole: The Aesthetics of the Discrete\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter 18 Counterpoint – 'A Rose by Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet': Finding Beauty in the Past Century\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYael Reisner \u003c\/b\u003eis a practitioner, researcher, educator and writer. Born in Tel Aviv, she has lived in London since 1990 and is the director of Yael Reisner Studio. She trained at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London and is a registered architect in Israel. In 2009, she gained a PhD from RMIT University, Melbourne. Her doctoral thesis focused on the relationship between beauty and architecture. This research developed into a book: \u003ci\u003eArchitecture and Beauty: Conversations with Architects about A Troubled Relationship, \u003c\/i\u003ewritten with Fleur Watson (John Wiley \u0026amp; Sons, 2010). Since 2005, Reisner has been teaching architecture internationally. In 2017, Reisner was appointed a guest professor at the Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBeauty in architecture matters again. This issue of \u003ci\u003eAD\u003c\/i\u003e posits that after 80 years of aggressive suppression of engagement with aesthetics, the temporarily dormant preoccupation with beauty is back. This is evidenced by a current cultural shift from the supposedly objective to an emerging trust in the subjective – a renewed fascination for aesthetics supported by new knowledge emanating simultaneously from disparate disciplines.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDigital design continues to influence architectural discourse, not only due to changes in manufacturing but also through establishing meaning. The very term ‘post-digital’ was introduced by computational designers and artists, who accept that digital gains in architectural design are augmented by human judgement and cognitive intuition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe issue takes an interdisciplinary approach to this re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroaesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture, while discussing the work of the international architects, in both practice and academe, who are generating new aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors: \u003c\/b\u003eAlisa Andrasek,Izaskun Chinchilla, Marjan Colletti, Peter Cook, Robbert Dijkgraaf\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003eWinka Dubbeldam, David Garcia, Graham Harman, Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, Alan Powers, Gilles Retsin, Kristina Schinegger and Stefan Rutzinger, Fleur Watson and Martyn Hook and Semir Zeki.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatured architects:\u003c\/b\u003e Archi-Tectonics, ecoLogicStudio, NaJa \u0026amp; deOstos, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa\/SANAA, soma architecture, Studio Gang, John Wardle Architects and Tom Wiscombe Architecture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988796227813,"sku":"NP9781119546245","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781119546245.jpg?v=1761781624","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/beauty-matters-isbn-9781119546245","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}