Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology /

Green, Keith Evan,

Architectural robotics : ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology / Keith Evan Green. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource (xi, 264 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

Prologue : Scenes from a marriage -- Of metaphors, stories, and forms -- I. Reconfigurable : Spaces of many functions -- In awe of the new workflow -- The reconfigurable environment -- II. Distributed : Living rooms -- The art of home+ -- The distributed environment -- III. Transfigurable : Portals to elsewhere -- A LIT ROOM for the persistence of print -- The transfigurable environment -- Epilogue : Ecosystems of bits, bytes, and biology.

"The relationship of humans to computers can no longer be represented as one person in a chair and one computer on a desk. Today computing finds its way into our pockets, our cars, our appliances; it is ubiquitous --



9780262334211


Architecture and technology.
Architecture--Human factors.
Buildings--Environmental engineering.
Cooperating objects (Computer systems)
Intelligent buildings.
Robotics--Human factors.
Smart materials in architecture.

Aging Architecture Art Assistive technology Bandwidth Bibliographies Biology Bit rate Bladder Buildings Collaboration Computer architecture Computer displays Computers Cyber-physical systems Cybernetics Ecology Ecosystems Employment Films Floors Green products Hospitals Human computer interaction Human factors Immune system Indexes Internet Joining processes Kinematics Libraries Lighting Man machine systems Media Mobile communication Monitoring Moon Network topology Object recognition Oceans Optical fiber networks Portals Presses Psychology Quality of service Real-time systems Rehabilitation robotics Robot sensing systems Robots Scalability Sensors Shape Sociology Statistics Subspace constraints Sun Topology Transforms Ubiquitous computing Urban areas Vegetation Virtualization Visual perception


Electronic Books.

NA2543 / .A734 2016