The Active Image
Architecture and Engineering in the Age of Modeling
Editors: Ammon, Sabine, Capdevila-Werning, Remei (Eds.)
- Details a new approach to image theory
- Contains interdisciplinary accounts of imagery, from architecture to engineering
- Features a cross-section of methodological approaches to imagery
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- About this book
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The “active image” refers to the operative nature of images, thus capturing the vast array of “actions” that images perform. This volume features essays that present a new approach to image theory. It explores the many ways images become active in architecture and engineering design processes and how, in the age of computer-based modeling, images play an indispensable role.
The contributors examine different types of images, be they pictures, sketches, renderings, maps, plans, and photographs; be they analog or digital, planar or three-dimensional, ephemeral, realistic or imaginary. Their essays investigate how images serve as means of representing, as tools for thinking and reasoning, as ways of imagining the inexistent, as means of communicating and conveying information and how images may also perform functions and have an agency in their own.
The essays discuss the role of images from the perspective of philosophy, theory and history of architecture, history of science, media theory, cognitive sciences, design studies, and visual studies, offering a multidisciplinary approach to imagery and showing the various methodologies and interpretations in current research. In addition, they offer valuable insight to better understand how images operate and function in the arts and sciences in general.
- About the authors
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Sabine Ammon works at the Berlin University of Technology as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, funded by the European Union, and acts as spokesperson of the interdisciplinary research group “Dynamics of Knowledge in Engineering Sciences”. She received her Ph.D. from Berlin University of Technology. She works mainly in epistemology, philosophy of engineering science and technology, image theory, and design ethics.
Remei Capdevila-Werning is Director of Education and Public Programs at El Museo del Barrio in New York. She received her Ph.D. from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has taught at Fairfield University and the School of Visual Arts. Her research interests include analytical aesthetics and epistemology, philosophy of art, architecture and historic preservation.
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Active Image
- Book Subtitle
- Architecture and Engineering in the Age of Modeling
- Editors
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- Sabine Ammon
- Remei Capdevila-Werning
- Series Title
- Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
- Series Volume
- 28
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Copyright Holder
- Springer International Publishing AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-56466-1
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-56466-1
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-56465-4
- Series ISSN
- 1879-7202
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 317
- Number of Illustrations and Tables
- 127 b/w illustrations
- Topics