The book A Purple Architecture: Design in the Age of the Physical-Virtual Continuum has recently been announced as this year’s winner in the art category by the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
The book is edited by WSU faculty Vahid Vahdat and published by Carnegie Mellon University’s ETC Press. Dr. Vahdat and his two co-editors, James F. Kerestes and Ebrahim Poustinchi, argue that rapid technological developments in areas such as artificial intelligence, mixed reality, and robotic additive manufacturing, especially as pioneered by large tech companies, have failed to offer a cohesive aspirational agenda to reduce human suffering and oppression. A Purple Architecture addresses the need for such an agenda by provoking an interdisciplinary discussion among some of the most innovative leaders of the design fields.
The book is open access and can be freely downloaded at the publisher’s web page.
