The Active Image: Architecture and Engineering in the Age of Modeling

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.