Architectonics of Game Spaces: The Spatial Logic of the Virtual and Its Meaning for the Real

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2019

Architectonics of Game Spaces

The Spatial Logic of the Virtual and Its Meaning for the Real

Edited by: Andri Gerber and Ulrich Götz
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2019: Frontlist Collection

Volume 50 in the series Architekturen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839448021

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About this book

What consequences does the design of the virtual yield for architecture and to what extent can the nature of architecture be used productively to turn game-worlds into sustainable places - over here, in »reality«?
This pioneering collection gives an overview of contemporary developments in designing video games and of the relationships such practices have established with the design of architecture. Due to their often simulatory nature, games reveal constructions of reality while positively impacting spatial ability and allowing for alternative avenues to complex topics and processes of negotiation. Granting insight into the merging of the design of real and virtual environments, this volume offers an invaluable platform for further debate.

Author / Editor information

Andri Gerber (PhD), born 1974, is Professor for the History of Urban Design at the ZHAW in Winterthur. He is an expert of metaphors in the context of architecture and urban design. His research interests turn around the concept of space, from a phenomenological, a political and more recently from a cognitive perspective.
Ulrich Götz, born in 1971, is Professor at the ZHdK Zurich University of the Arts, heading the ZHdK Subject Area in Game Design. Trained as an architect, he discusses comparable strategies of spatial design in architecture and game spaces. He has built up extensive experience in research and development of serious and applied games. His university teaching focuses on the analysis and design of game mechanics, game concepts, motivation design, and spatial design in virtual environments.

Reviews

»Die Lektüre [...] ist sowohl für Game Designer als auch für Architektinnen lohnenswert und inspirierend.«
Urs Honegger, www.hochparterre.ch, 29.11.2019

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Contents Open Access Download PDF	5
Introduction Andri Gerber and Ulrich Götz Open Access Download PDF	9
PART 1, INTERVIEWS
Taking Risks! Werner Oechslin Open Access Download PDF	27
Invisible (Game) Cities Paolo Pedercini Open Access Download PDF	47
In-World Realism Konstantinos Dimopoulos Open Access Download PDF	59
Video/Game Johannes Binotto Open Access Download PDF	71
Games as Provinces of Meaning Silke Steets Open Access Download PDF	85
Free your Imagination! Philipp Schaerer Open Access Download PDF	95
A Fascination for Empty Rooms Francine Rotzetter Open Access Download PDF	111
Towards an Architecture of Desire François Charbonnet and Patrick Heiz Open Access Download PDF	119
PART 2, ESSAYS
A. TOWARDS A DEFINITION OF GAME SPACES
The Architectonics of Game Spaces Or, why you should Play and Design Video Games to become a better Architect Andri Gerber Open Access Download PDF	135
Virtual World Weariness On Delaying the Experiental Erosion of Digital Environments Stefano Gualeni Open Access Download PDF	153
The Lived Space of Computer Games Stephan Günzel Open Access Download PDF	167
The Architectural Continuum Choropoietic Media and Post-Physical-World Environments Constantinos Miltiadis Open Access Download PDF	183
B. SPATIAL TRANSITIONS BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE AND GAMES
From Asteroids to Architectoids Close Encounters between Architecture and Game Design Ulrich Götz Open Access Download PDF	201
Piercing all Layers of the Anthroposphere On Spatialization and Architectural Possibilism in Hitman Marc Bonner Open Access Download PDF	215
Creating Fascinating Spaces The Assignement for Designers of both Virtuality and Reality Sinem Cukurlu Open Access Download PDF	233
Augmented Play, Art, and Space The Cognitive Coupling of Avant-Garde Games with Unexpected Mental Spaces Margarete Jahrmann Open Access Download PDF	249
C. THE POTENTIAL OF GAME SPACES FOR A NEW ARCHITECTURE
Play the City Dungeons and Dragons for Cities Ekim Tan Open Access Download PDF	265
Democracy, Video Games, and Urban Design Minecraft as a Public Participation Tool James Delaney Open Access Download PDF	277
Video Game Urbanism How we Design Vir tual Game Spaces to Engage new Audiences with the Architecture of Tomorrow Luke Caspar Pearson Open Access Download PDF	293
Bibliography/Ludography Open Access Download PDF	313
Image Copyrights Open Access Download PDF	331
Authors Open Access Download PDF	335

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 346
Keywords: Game Spaces; Game Architecture; Video Games; Architecture; Media; Space; Computer Games; Digital Media

eBook

Published: March 27, 2020
ISBN: 9783839448021