TY - BOOK AU - Gerber,Andri AU - Götz,Ulrich TI - Architectonics of Game Spaces: The Spatial Logic of the Virtual and Its Meaning for the Real T2 - Architekturen SN - 9783839448021 PY - 2020///] CY - Bielefeld : PB - transcript-Verlag, KW - Architecture KW - Computer Games KW - Digital Media KW - Game Architecture KW - Game Spaces KW - Media KW - Space KW - Video Games KW - ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; Taking Risks! --; Invisible (Game) Cities --; In-World Realism --; Video/Game --; Games as Provinces of Meaning --; Free your Imagination! --; A Fascination for Empty Rooms --; Towards an Architecture of Desire --; The Architectonics of Game Spaces --; Virtual World Weariness --; The Lived Space of Computer Games --; The Architectural Continuum --; From Asteroids to Architectoids --; Piercing all Layers of the Anthroposphere --; Creating Fascinating Spaces --; Augmented Play, Art, and Space --; Play the City --; Democracy, Video Games, and Urban Design --; Video Game Urbanism --; Bibliography/Ludography --; Image Copyrights --; Authors; Open Access N2 - 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 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783839448021 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9783839448021.jpg ER -