Digital Ground: Architecture, Pervasive Computing, and Environmental Knowing
"Like it or not, our physical environment is beginning to fill with embedded and ubiquitous computing devices. Are we attending sufficiently to their design and to their effects on our lives? How will they change our traditional notions of architecture? Questions largely ignored because they are too difficult -- or too painful -- to answer are confronted head-on in McCullough's thoughtful and provocative essay."--B.J. Novitski, Managing Editor, ArchitectureWeek"...[A] way to think about how we might intelligently respond to the computer kudzu without letting it take over the garden." Michael J. Crosbie Architectural Record"InDigital GroundMalcolm McCullough elegantly summarizes the past and present relations between architecture and computing, and constructs a solid foundation for future interaction between the two fields." Casey Reas, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea"Malcolm McCullough's book charts a significant, unexplored terrain confronting architects and society at large. Pervasive computing is embedded, networked, ubiquitous, and capable of not only sensing and processing, but acting as well. This new form of computing holds the potential to restructure physical space and our relation to it, and McCullough provides an articulate and readable introduction to this new world, both promising and troubling.Digital Groundis a solid, early contribution to what will quickly become an important field of study for architecture, planning, and urban design." Dana Cuff, Professor of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles"In *Digital Ground* Malcolm McCullough elegantly summarizes the past and present relations between architecture and computing, and constructs a solid foundation for future interaction between the two fields."--Casey Reas, Interaction Design Institute Ivrea"Malcolm McCollough's book charts a significant, unexplored terrain confronting architects and society at large. Pervasive computing is embedded, networked, ubiquitous, and capable of not only sensing and processing, but acting as well. This new form of computing holds the potential to restructure physical space and our relation to it, and McCullough provides an articulate and readable introduction to this new world, both promising and troubling. *Digital Ground* is a solid, early contribution to what will quickly become an important field of study for architecture, planning, and urban design."--Dana Cuff, Professor of Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles