TY - BOOK AU - Engeli, Maia TI - Digital stories: the poetics of communication SN - 3-7643-6175-1 PY - 2000/// CY - Basel PB - Birkhauser KW - Architecture KW - sears N1 - Contents: Fear of the Demo? - 1. Messages: screens are small - ideas are big - 2. Architecture: rooms are part of life - 3. Let's talk visible - 4. Images: touching the soul - 5. Stories: documentary, poetry, fiction, comics, film, advertising - 6. Hyperdocument: creating the mesh - 7. Information spaces: new spheres to explore - 8. Learning: discoveries beyond the frontier - Bibliography N2 - Design in the area of architecture is essentially an act of innovation, continually striving to integrate practical, metaphorical and symbolic features into the designs using the technical means of today, and this is precisely where the computer can provide fascinating new potential to create a narrative space. The author particularly highlights the structure of data, the medium of the screen, and the modes of languagewhich use images, sequential and hypertext structures ER -