The Active Image

Chapter 1: Reinhold Martin, Points of Departure: Notes Toward a Reversible History of Architectural Visualization.- Chapter 2: Daniel Cardoso Llach, Architecture and the Structured Image: Software Simulations as Infrastructures for Building Production.- Chapter 3: Remei Capdevila-Werning, Architectural Drawings as Symbols: A Goodmanian Account of Epistemic Practices in the Design Process.- Chapter 4: Gabriela Goldschmidt, Manual Sketching: Why is it Still Relevant?.- Chapter 5: Irene Mittelberg, Thomas H. Schmitz, Hannah Groninger, Operative Manufacts: Gestures as Immediate Sketches in the Early Stages of the Design Process.- Chapter 6: Rivka Oxman, The Role of the Image in Digital Design: Processing the Image versus Imaging the Process.- Chapter 7: Nathalie Bredella, Visualization Techniques and Computational Design Strategies: Reflecting on the Milieu and Agency of Digital Tools in 1990s Architecture.- Chapter 8: Sabine Ammon, Image-based Epistemic Strategies in Modeling: Designing Architecture after the Digital Turn.- Chapter 9: Alice Comi, Suha Jaradat, Jennifer Whyte, Constructing Shared Vision in Design Practice: Material Mediation in Professional Work between Architects and Engineers.- Chapter 10: Mehul Bhatt, Carl Schultz, People-Centered Visuospatial Cognition. Next-generation Architectural Design Systems and their Role in Conception, Computing, and Communication.- Chapter 11: Johannes Lenhard, License to Explore: How Images Work in Simulation Modeling.- Chapter 12: Doris Hallama, On Fuzziness and Relationships: Abstraction and Illustrative Visualization in Snow Avalanche Control Planning..

Sabine Ammon works at the Berlin University of Technology as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow, funded by the European Union, and acts as spokesperson of the interdisciplinary research group "Dynamics of Knowledge in Engineering Sciences". She received her Ph.D. from Berlin University of Technology. She works mainly in epistemology, philosophy of engineering science and technology, image theory, and design ethics.

Remei Capdevila-Werning is Director of Education and Public Programs at El Museo del Barrio in New York. She received her Ph.D. from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She has taught at Fairfield University and the School of Visual Arts. Her research interests include analytical aesthetics and epistemology, philosophy of art, architecture and historic preservation.