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(Zeitschrift architektur.aktuell, Vol. 332) Soft- 2007. 240 p. Softcover cover 2007. Etwa 170 S. (Zeitschrift architektur.aktuell, Vol. 333) Soft- cover 19,90 € 12,90 € ISBN 978-1-56898-734-7 ISBN 978-3-211-69897-6 12,90 € ISBN 978-3-211-69898-3 springer.com/booksellers Popular Science 3 J. Agassi, York University, Toronto, ON, Canada S. Aigner, Wien, Österreich (Ed.) M. Altinisik, London, UK; S. Chamoun, London, UK; D. Widrig, London, UK Science and History Emanzipation und Konfrontation / Morphê A Reassessment of the Historiography of Science Emancipation and Confrontation / Emancipacija in konfrontacija MRGD Kunst aus Kärnten von 1945 bis heute. Architektur aus Professor Joseph Agassi has published his Towards Kärnten seit 1945 und Kunst im öffentlichen Raum heute. an Historiography of Science in 1963. It received Digital technologies influence architecture, art and many reviews by notable academics, including Mau- design. These new technologies are generally used rice Finocchiaro, Charles Gillispie, Thomas S. Kuhn, for preliminary design work and presentations, Geroge Mora, Nicholas Rescher, and L. Pearce „Emancipation and Confrontation" documents which hardly tap their experimental potential. Ad- Williams. It is still in use in many courses in the phi- both the emergence of a new, postwar generation of vanced 3D and animation software was originally losophy and history of science. Here it appears in a artists, and the way art has developed between then developed for PC games and the film industry and revised and updated with responses to these reviews and now. In addition to painting, sculpture, photog- offers strong algorithms. These algorithms make it and with many additional chapters, some already raphy, video art and installtions have also gained in possible to simulate reality as we know it, but the classic, others new. They are all paradigms of the importance, and have been presented accordingly. challenge lies in creating new realities with them. author’s innovative way of writing fresh and engag- Many of the artists native to Carinthia such as Maria The new volume in the RIEA Concepts Series in- ing chapters in the history of the natural sciences. Lassnig, Kiki Kogelnik, Bruno Gironcoli, Cornelius troduces the "UrbanLobby" project by MRGD, the Kolig, Kurt Kocherscheidt or Heimo Zobernig have young London architecture office started by Melike Features made their mark on the history of art beyond the Altinisik, Samer Chamoun and Daniel Widrig. The it is an intriguing book; it teaches how to avoid read- confines of Carinthia. Described here within a cul- office recently won the SwissArtsAward 2007 for its ing and writing boring material. It makes the history tural-historical context are the significant artistic de- work and their projects have been shown in a num- of science lively. velopments that have taken place, and the protago- ber of AA Gallery exhibitions. nists introduced with important examples of their Contents work. Carinthia’s contribution to modern architec- Features TABLE OF CONTENTS  TOWARDS AN ture and art in public space is paid tribute to here for New volume in the RIEA Concepts Series Experi- HISTORIOGRAPHY OF SCIENCE I. Chroniclers the first time. Projects are exemplarily presented and mental visualization with 3D and animation software in the Courts of Science: Introductions to the New the typically Carinthian prerequisites critically