Abstract Space Beneath the Media Surface

This visually stunning, conceptually richand imaginative book investigates the cultural connection between new media and architectural imaging. Through a range of material, from theoretical texts to experimental design projects, Tierney explores notions of what the architectural image means today. Within the book's visually imaginative design framework, Abstract Space engages discourses from architecture, visual and cultural studies to computer science and communications technology to presentan in-depth multi-media case study. Tracing a provisional history of the topic, the book also lends a provocative and multivalent understanding to the complex relations affecting the architectural image today.

Introduction 1. Architectureand Abstraction: Topologies of New Media2.Architectural Modes of Seeing: Visual Theory and Cognition 3.Formulating Abstraction: Conceptual Art and the Architectural Object 4. Mapping Absence: ArchitecturalContingencies5. Generative Systems:Evolving Computational Strategies6. Formal Matters: The Virtual as a Generative Concept7. The Status of the Architectural Image

Therese Tierney is a doctoral scholar at the University of California Berkeley where she is a Malcolm Reynolds Fellow. She has worked as a practicing architect in San Francisco and has held teaching positions at the University of California Berkeley and California College of the Arts.