Reality Bytes - Bart Lootsma

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Résumé :
Reality Bytes is a collection of essays by Bart Lootsma, written in the years from 1998 to 2009. Byte is a unit of digital information used in information technology and most commonly consists of eight bits. Reality Bytes is also the title of an essay by Bart Lootsma, in which he investigates the relationship between society and architects and town planners. Bart Lootsma, Professor of Architecture as well as architectural historian, critic and curator, is one of the most multi-faceted figures amongst contemporary architectural theorists. He has produced numerous publications, including Superdutch, an appraisal of contemporary architecture in the Netherlands published in 2000. In Reality Bytes he has now for the first time compiled hitherto (mostly) unpublished texts on architectural theory, on Second Modernism, on populism and architecture, on landscape architecture and on the changing role of architects in society.

Biographie:
Bart Lootsma, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck, Austria.

Sommaire:
Preface.- Situated Knowledge.- More Maastricht Bean Counting!.- Reality Bytes.- Architecture in the Second Modernity.- Towards a Theory of Specificity.- The nth Typology.- Individualization.- The Paradoxes of contemporary Populism.- The New Landscape.- Public Space in Transition.- Of other Spaces.- The Diagram Debate, or the Schizoid Architect.- Total Immersion.- Bodysnatchers.- Black Holes in Megalopolis.- Formal-Formless.- Forgotten Worlds, Possible Worlds.- The Style of Choice.