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Combining the insights of designers, theorists, engineers and artists this book examines the cultural, aesthetic and political effects of mapping techniques on the fields of cultural production in art, science and architecture

In recent years, new digital mapping techniques have begun to alter profoundly the ways in which we measure and represent space. In architecture, it is such techniques that have made possible such extraordinary structures as Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

3D scanning technology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and Satellite Positioning Systems to mention just a few have produced unique visions of architecture and its environment.

Digital mapping is redefining the possibilities of architectural construction and is gaining importance throughout all aspects of science and art. Cross-disciplinary contributions are featured, from engineers, designers, theorists and artists Richly illustrated, including many extraordinary computer-generated images Should also be an adoptable title, the author himself keen to adopt it for each of the four years through his course at Yale

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• Acknowledgements(p. 6)
• Preface(p. 7)
• Introduction: Mapping in the Age of Digital Media(p. 8)
• Just in Time(p. 14)
• Games, Mapping and Mediation(p. 18)
• Skins and Walls
• Bodies Unfolding: selfportrait.map(p. 26)
• Refiguring the Figure: Imaging the Body in Contemporary Art and Digital Media(p. 34)
• Mapping Curves: An Interview with James Glymph of Frank O Gehry and Associates(p. 40)
• Mapping Time
• Networking Maps: GIS, Virtualized Reality and the World Wide Web(p. 48)
• The Power of the Image to Promote Science(p. 56)
• Mapping Musical Space(p. 64)
• Motion-Mapping(p. 80)
• Below the Surface
• Rart: MRI Self-portraits(p. 92)
• Subsurface Visualization: An Interview with Duane Dopkin of Paradigm Geophysical(p. 98)
• Traces and Simulations(p. 108)
• Voxels: An Interview with Julie Dorsey of Yale University(p. 120)
• Conclusion: Historical Perspectives on Representing and Transferring Spatial Knowledge(p. 128)
• Contributor Biographies(p. 138)

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Diana Balmori was born in Gijón, Spain on June 4, 1932. She studied architecture at the National University of Tucumán in Argentina, but failed to receive a degree when the government expelled her entire class because of a student protest. She emigrated to the United States in 1952 with her husband. She received a doctorate in urban history at U.C.L.A. in 1973.

In 1980, she joined her husband's firm, César Pelli and Associates, where she created a department of landscape architecture and worked with him on several projects including the Winter Garden Atrium in the World Financial Center in Manhattan. She was a landscape architect whose ecologically sensitive designs integrated buildings and the natural environment. In 1990, she founded Balmori Associates. The firm worked on numerous projects including transforming the old industrial port of Bilbao, Spain, into a park system; the Gwynns Falls Trail in Baltimore; a trail system in Cedar Lake Park in Minneapolis; and South Korea's new administrative capital, Sejong City.

Her first book, Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes, written with Diane Kostial McGuire and Eleanor McPeck, was published in 1985. Her other books include Redesigning the American Lawn: A Search for Environmental Harmony written with F. Herbert Bormann and Gordon T. Geballe, Groundwork: Between Landscape and Architecture written with Joel Sanders, and A Landscape Manifesto. She died from lung cancer on November 14, 2016 at the age of 84.

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