Computer Architectures

Name: Computer Architectures
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
Price: 263.75 AUD
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Constructing the Common Ground

By: Olga Touloumi (Editor), Theodora Vardouli (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 November 2019 | Edition Number 1

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244 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.65

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Computer Architectures is a collection of multidisciplinary historical works that unearth sites, concepts, and concerns that catalyzed the cross-contamination of computers and architecture in the mid-20^th century.

Weaving together intellectual, social, cultural, and material histories, this book collectively paint the landscape that brought computing into the imagination, production, and management of the built environment, whilst foregrounding the impact of architecture in shaping technological development. The book is organized into sections corresponding to the classic von Neumann diagram for computer architecture: Program (control unit), storage (memory), input/output and computation (arithmetic/logic unit), acting as quasi-material categories for parsing debates among architects, engineers, mathematicians, and technologists. Collectively authors bring forth the striking homologies between a computer program and an architectural program, a wall and an interface, computer memory and storage architectures, structures of mathematics and structures of things. The collection initiates new histories of knowledge and technology production that turn an eye toward disciplinary fusions and their institutional and intellectual drives.

Actively constructing the common ground between design and computing, this collection addresses audiences working at the nexus of design, technology, and society, including historians and practitioners of design and architecture, science and technology scholars, and media studies scholars.

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"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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