.8 June 1998
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Hypersurface Architecture Edited by: Stephen Perrella .................................................. ISBN: 0-471-97809-4 Paperback Price: $36.50 est. Pages: 112 Copyright: 1998 Projected Pub Date: Jul 1998 This book explores the advances in architecture made possible by digital technology. The integration of cyberspace and the built environment is producing an entirely new method of designing. The works of key architects, including Bernard Tschumi, Philip Johnson, and Togo Ito, are featured to illustrate this new method. Includes essays by Peter Eisenman, Andrew Benjamin, Peter Lunenfield, and Marcus Novak. ...........................................................................................

	ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN HYPERSURFACE ARCHITECTURE Guest Editor: Stephen Perrella Published by Academy Editions, A Division of John Wiley & Sons
	Architecture is approaching an unprecedented juncture as the complexities of contemporary culture become increasingly saturated with digital technology. This book is the first on the subject of Hypersurface; an architectural concept promoting broader interfaces and integration between cyberspace and the built environment. Hypersurface promotes increased accessibility to the Internet, initiates new ideas regarding architectural ornament, and instigates new explorations of architectural surfaces and materials. This issue offers a compilation of essays and projects by leading thinkers and practitioners in this field and provides new conceptual tools to understand new developments in architecture relating to new media.  Architects featured include Reiser+Umemoto, Bernard Cache, Marcos Novak, Ben van Berkel, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Bernard Tschumi, Lars Spuybroek, Studio Asymptote, Kas Oosterhuis and Claude Parent. Essayists include Brian Massumi, Michael Speaks and Gary Genosko. Stephen Perrella <haptic@columbia.edu> is an architect at Columbia University and editor of the architecture newspaper NEWSLINE and the journal COLUMBIA DOCUMENTS. He has lectured internationally and is president of Hypersurface Systems Inc. (a design firm focusing on developing technologies that interrelate digital technology with the built environment). ...........................................................................................