Background
Mitchell, William John was born on December 15, 1944 in Horsham, Australia.
( "An intelligent and readable approach to the digitizati...)
"An intelligent and readable approach to the digitization of images.... A useful overview of a critical subject."-- New York Times Book ReviewEnhanced? Or faked? Today the very idea of photographic veracity is being radically challenged by the emerging technology of digital image manipulation and synthesis: photographs can now be altered at will in ways that are virtually undetectable, and photorealistic synthesized images are becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish from actual photographs.Continuing William Mitchell's investigations of how we understand, reason about, and use images, The Reconfigured Eye provides the first systematic, critical analysis of the digital imaging revolution. It describes the technology of the digital image in detail and looks closely at how it is changing the way we explore ideas, at its aesthetic potential, and at the ethical questions it raises.
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(In this lucid, invigorating book, William Mitchell examin...)
In this lucid, invigorating book, William Mitchell examines this new urban infrastructure of the global digital network and its implications for our future daily lives.
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( The Logic of Architecture is the first comprehensive, s...)
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, their interpretation, and their role in structuring design thinking.Supplemented by more than 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.Mitchell first considers how buildings may be described in words and shows how such descriptions may be formalized by the notation of first order predicate calculus. This leads to the idea of a critical language for speaking about the qualities of buildings. Turning to the question of representation by drawings and scale models, Mitchell then develops the notion of design worlds that provide graphic tokens which can be manipulated according to certain grammatical rules. In particular, he shows how domains of graphic compositions possible in a design world may be specified by formal shape grammars. Design worlds and critical languages are connected by showing how such languages may be interpreted in design worlds. Design processes are then viewed as computations in a design world with the objective of satisfying predicates of form and function stated in a critical language.William J. Mitchell is G. Ware and Edythe M. Travelstead Professor of Architecture at Harvard University and a founder of the Computer Aided Design Group in Los Angeles. Among the books he has authored or coauthored are The Poetics of Gardens, The Art of Computer Graphics Programming, and Computer Aided Architectural Design.
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( There is a universality about the creation of gardens a...)
There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of places and the gardens they can become. Most of the 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs were created especially for this book. They explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. The authors discuss the qualities that create the promise of a garden the shapes of land and water, the established plants, the light and wind, the climate and show how these can be organized to give a place a special meaning. And they pay particular attention to the "rituals of habitation" by which we imaginatively take possession of places on the surface of the earth. The Poetics of Gardens examines great gardens made in other places, with other climates, at other times from ancient Rome to modem England, from Ball to Botany Bay, from the court of Ch'ien Lung to the magic kingdom of Walt Disney to explore their devices and record their images, scents, and sounds. The authors discuss the adaptation of the great garden traditions of the past to North American soil and call together the creators of these gardens to speculate about how their patterns and ideas can be appropriated, transformed, and composed into places that come alive for us.
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Mitchell, William John was born on December 15, 1944 in Horsham, Australia.
Bachelor of Architecture, University Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1967. Master of Environmental Design, Yale University, 1969. Master of Arts, University Cambridge, England, 1977.
Architect Yuncken-Freeman Architects, Melbourne, Australia, 1967—1968. Assistant professor architecture, urban design University of California at Los Angeles, 1970—1974, head architecture, urban design program, 1973—1977, associate professor architecture, urban design, 1974—1980, professor architecture, urban design, program head', 1980—1986. President The Urban Innovations Group, 1973—1974.
Founding partner The Computer-Aided Design Group, Marina Del Rey, 1978—1991. Professor architecture Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1986—1989, director Master in Design Studies Program, 1986—1992, G. Ware and Edythe M. Travelstead professor architecture, 1989—1992. Professor architecture and media arts & science Massachusetts Institute of Technology, from 1992, dean School of Architecture and Planning, 1992—2003, head media arts and science program, 2003—2010.
Visiting critic Yale University, New Haven, 1970—1975, Tulane University, New Orleans, 1981. Lecturer department architecture University Cambridge, England, 1978—1980. Visiting professor University California, Berkeley, 1982, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 1979—1983, University Sydney, 1985.
Distinguished visiting scholar University Adelaide, SA, Australia.
( There is a universality about the creation of gardens a...)
(In this lucid, invigorating book, William Mitchell examin...)
( The Logic of Architecture is the first comprehensive, s...)
( "An intelligent and readable approach to the digitizati...)
(Korean translation of this classic MIT Press volume.)
Fellow: Royal Australian Institute Architecture.