Verb Processing (Architecture Boogazine) [ペーパーバック]

From classical work to the modern object, and from the modern industrial to "computerized" procedures, the interplay between author and user has become closer, more direct, more open. How does this increasing complicity affect architectural practice? How can architecture be conceived as a more fluid informational development? Publishing architecture is much more than displaying a recently finished product in which the architect is the unique author. To make architecture is a real undertaking in which numerous authors participate; it is based on the processing of information before, during and after the materialization of the building. This first issue of the new boogazine "Verb" deals with the present relationship between information and authorship in architectural practice, featuring works and texts by Manuel de Landa, Jorge Wagensberg, FOA Architects, Sadar & Vuga, njiric & njiric, Love, Lacaton & Vassal. This volume is also available in French (ISBN 84-89698-87-2) and Spanish (84-89698-88-0).

VERB: a new publication devoted to cutting edge issues in architecture and design. The first issue of "Verb" looks closely at the current relationship between information and authorship in cultural practice, asking: how does the increasing complicity between author and audience affect architectural practice? And how can architecture be conceived more fluidly in terms of information? The shift from ''modern'' to digital systems of design and production opens up a material work to a much more profound interaction between author and audience. This change represents a new stage in the development of the relationship that a work--or, in another sense, a message--establishes between the author--or sender--and the reader--or receiver. From the classical work, with its "a priori," essentialist model of appreciation, to the modernist object, with its subjective model of aesthetics, to the emerging cybernetic model, the interface between author and ''user'' has become closer, more direct, and more open. Handsomely designed and richly illustrated, this combination of book and magazine--a "boogazine"--is the first installment in what is sure to be a groundbreaking journey through architecture and design. Essays by Jorge Wagensberg, Manuel de Landa, Alejandro Zaera, Kunio Watanabe, and Adilkno Bilwet.

Jorge Wagensberg is director of the Science Museum in Barcelona. He holds a PhD in Physics. Manuel de Landa is an independent filmmaker, programmer, and computer artist who has also lectured and written extensively on theories of nonlinear dynamics and artificial intelligence. Foreign Office Architects was founded in 1992 by Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera, both of them alumni of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Croatian-based architecture team njiric + njiric have received increasing international attention in the past several years, participating in several exhibitions in the United Kingdom and France.Slovenian engineer-architects Sadar & Vuga have been working together since 1992, and their work in their home country has consistently subverted convention and gained them worldwide recognition.