Aesthetics, architecture, and responsibility collide in Reality Modeled After Images

A new book on architectural representation, Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture and Aesthetics after the Digital Image (Routledge Publishing) by Michael Young, co-founder of YOUNG & AYATA and assistant professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, attempts to deal with the state of contemporary image culture by cutting across history, design, art, technology, and aesthetic philosophy.

Covering a broad range of topics—including politics, labor, machine vision and…