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Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture<\/em><\/strong> addresses how and why architects, artists, and designers manipulate reality. Front and centre in this discourse is the role of rendering. Most often, to render is to engage a thick software interface, to accept a photographic framework of variables and effects, and to assume an unquestioned posture of articulating material, mass, and colour. But like drawing, rendering is an interdisciplinary, algorithmic, historically rooted cultural practice as much as it is a digital vocation. The elements explored in this book are labelled “impossible” because they avoid a fixed relationship to a singular built reality. Digital bonsai trees, pixels, video game levels, grids, and dioramas extend like skewers through multiple media and formats. Through work that looks very real and can’t possibly exist, representation becomes the territory of speculation, ambiguity, and curiosity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture addresses how and why architects, artists, and designers manipulate reality. Front and centre in this discourse is the role of rendering.
9 Acknowledgments
\n11 Introduction
\nCHAPTER 1
\n19 Bits Mapped
\n21 The Pixel
\n23 Constructing Elements in Pursuit
\nof Impossibility
\n25 1988, the Year of the Pixel
\n31 Pixel Creating Cultures
\n40 Preserving the Pixel, Releasing Style
\nfrom Technology
\n45 The Contemporary Binary Bitmapped
\nSurface
\n48 Draw by hand within the space of
\na digital image
\n78 Resolve to true or false with tons
\nof information
\nCHAPTER 2
\n83 Every Grid is Material
\nBY JULIE KRESS
\n87 Every tool is Pre-Gridded
\n89 Every Grid is Aesthetic
\n94 Every Grid is Constructed
\n99 Every Grid is Imposed
\n102 Build and Break a Scaffold
\n105 Every grid wants to go on infinitely
\n107 Every grid has mass
\n112 Contain a Grid
\n115 Every grid does not need to be
\nthe same
\n118 Un-Standardized Fixtures
\nCHAPTER 3
\n123 Using a Tree to
\nRepresent a Tree
\n127 Bonsai is an Action and an Element
\n128 Books About Bonsai are Like
\nThis Book
\n129 The Tree Behind the Tree
\n133 Designing Tools to Control or Release
\nNatural Randomness
\n140 Random Salt Crystals
\n142 Who is the “User-Author”?
\n143 Using Software the Wrong Way
\n149 A Tree Yet Rendered is Three
\nHundred Text Files in a Folder
\n150 Sometimes a Tree Looks Nothing
\nlike a Tree
\n154 Everything is Bonsai when in Pursuit
\nof Bonsai
\n156 Over Time, of Time
\n159 The Pot is a Diorama
\nCHAPTER 4
\n165 A Room that Becomes
\na Diorama; A Diorama
\nAfflicted with Room Envy
\n167 Almost but not Quite a Diorama:
\nThe Room, its Powers, and its Limits
\n172 Model your space with every regard for
\ndetail and no regard for accuracy
\n173 All Apertures Become Dioramas
\n184 The Room as a Diorama
\n188 Model from Memory
\n189 American Landscape as Diorama
\n196 Like (Performed) Magic
\n208 Can a Diorama be Separated from
\nIts Content?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":37883,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5559],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31358","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-architecture-landscape-design","7":"author-by-author-carl-lostritto","8":"author-by-author-hans-tursack","9":"author-by-author-julie-kress","10":"author-by-author-viola-ago","11":"publisher-oro-editions","13":"first","14":"instock","15":"shipping-taxable","16":"purchasable","17":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nImpossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Impossible and Hyper-Real Elements of Architecture, Pages: 288 Pages, Publish Date: 14th Mar 2023, Author: Carl Lostritto, Hans Tursack, Julie Kress, Viola Ago, ISBN: 9781951541552. 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