Architecture and Adaptation

From Cybernetics to Tangible Computing

By Socrates Yiannoudes, includes work by Philip Beesley

Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents and their historical context, socio-cultural aspects of adaptive architecture, the history and theory of artificial life, the theory of human-computer interaction, tangible computing, and the social studies of technology … ”
—Introduction