Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition

Title: Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition
Author: William J Mitchell
Architecture & Design: 1698711
ISBN: 9780262631167
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1990
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 304
Section: Architecture | Criticism
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Publisher Description: "The Logic of Architecture" is the first comprehensive, systematic, and modern treatment of the logical foundations of design thinking. It provides a detailed discussion of languages of architectural form, their specification by means of formal grammars, and their role in structuring design thinking. Supplemented by over 200 original illustrations, "The Logic of Architecture" reexamines central issues of design theory in the light of recent advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and the theory of computation. The richness of this approach permits sympathetic and constructive analysis of positions developed by a wide range of theorists and philosophers -- from Socrates to the present.