TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– This paper aims to discuss the possibility of joining cybernetics and architecture as a continuous and open process, bridging design, construction and use, in that which is called cyberarchitecture.Design/methodology/approach– It develops the hypothesis that cyberarchitecture can benefit from taking the virtual into account in the design process, so that the architect is no longer the author of a finished architectural product, but of a set of instruments with which users can design, build and use their own environments simultaneously.Findings– A set of design principles is systematised and examined in three practical realms of design: urban, building, and relational, showing cyberarchitecture's embryonic feasibility.Practical implications– Cyberarchitecture implies that architects are no longer authors of finished products and users, becoming designers of their own spaces.Originality/value– Cyberarchitecture avoids the usual cybernetics approach based on control‐system, indicating a less predictive and, ultimately, anarchic path for architects and users. It focuses on architecture's intrinsic value as an event, indicating the possibility of a process‐based system, which only exists (or is organised) in present‐time, when users and instruments (or structures) interact.
VL  - 36
IS  - 9/10
SN  - 0368-492X
DO  - 10.1108/03684920710827265
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/03684920710827265
AU  - Baltazar Ana Paula
ED  - Ranulph Glanville
PY  - 2007
Y1  - 2007/01/01
TI  - Towards a virtual architecture: pushing cybernetics from government to anarchy
T2  - Kybernetes
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 1238
EP  - 1254
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -