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Aesthetics of urban media façades

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This paper sets out to develop and extend current literature on design practices for ambient media façades. It does this by bringing together theories of ambient media, computational aesthetics, and urban aesthetics. This unique theoretical combination has informed the design of several exemplars produced by the author, which are discussed as case studies.

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        MAB '14: Proceedings of the 2nd Media Architecture Biennale Conference: World Cities
        November 2014
        110 pages
        ISBN:9781450333023
        DOI:10.1145/2682884

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