Robert,
I spent about 1/2 to 1 hour clicking through the information you posted,
reading the texts, looking at the images and so on. It is an impressive
amount of work undertaken. I commend your efforts. I would like to begin
this discussion with a simple question.
To what extent were you or others involved in these projects interested in
the possibility of these tele-technologies to re-configure or
re-conceptualize architecture?
I ask this because what I found curious and disappointing after seeing a
number of the projects is that most of the projects do not seem any
different from physical studios because of the environment of their
creation. What I was expecting to see were projects taking critical aim at
issues of scale, place, geography, time, software, etc. rendering
interesting 'alternative' spatio-temporal experiences. It seems that many of
the projects got lost in the project of communication logistics, which is a
real-world dilemna to be dealt with, however, that is not, IMHO, what is of
primary concern.
I would like to see more of the projects as they evolved, to see how the
different tele-technologies made an impact if at all on the design. To me
what is missing is a dialogue about the effect of new technology on
architecture, positive or negative. In the past we have had some interesting
discussions from sPN's hypersurface architecture to bc's ae thesis and
Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants signage as just another node in the mass
of electricity networks, to JY's e-consulting, etc.
I would recommend as an alumni of Columbia to visit their web page:
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/ or http://www.arch.columbia.edu/DDL/ for
starters. Also the AA in London: http://www.ellipsis.com/index.html
particularly: http://www.ellipsis.com/evolutionary/aa.html. I am sure others
on the list have their bookmarks to share as well. These are just primers.
Of course, this is my bias, and I offer it as one possibility.
Look forward to your reply,
-sgp
ps: couldn't resist giving you more links, these describe a wide range of
possibilities.
http://www.archi.org/transarchitectures/t03/c_asymptote/00index_asympt_t03.html
http://www.aud.ucla.edu/~marcos/
http://www.jya.com/bc/ae.htm
http://jya.com/inci.htm (a much debated article)
http://www.activeworlds.com/ (an online community where 'citizens' can claim
'land' and 'build')
and on and on...
I spent about 1/2 to 1 hour clicking through the information you posted,
reading the texts, looking at the images and so on. It is an impressive
amount of work undertaken. I commend your efforts. I would like to begin
this discussion with a simple question.
To what extent were you or others involved in these projects interested in
the possibility of these tele-technologies to re-configure or
re-conceptualize architecture?
I ask this because what I found curious and disappointing after seeing a
number of the projects is that most of the projects do not seem any
different from physical studios because of the environment of their
creation. What I was expecting to see were projects taking critical aim at
issues of scale, place, geography, time, software, etc. rendering
interesting 'alternative' spatio-temporal experiences. It seems that many of
the projects got lost in the project of communication logistics, which is a
real-world dilemna to be dealt with, however, that is not, IMHO, what is of
primary concern.
I would like to see more of the projects as they evolved, to see how the
different tele-technologies made an impact if at all on the design. To me
what is missing is a dialogue about the effect of new technology on
architecture, positive or negative. In the past we have had some interesting
discussions from sPN's hypersurface architecture to bc's ae thesis and
Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants signage as just another node in the mass
of electricity networks, to JY's e-consulting, etc.
I would recommend as an alumni of Columbia to visit their web page:
http://www.arch.columbia.edu/ or http://www.arch.columbia.edu/DDL/ for
starters. Also the AA in London: http://www.ellipsis.com/index.html
particularly: http://www.ellipsis.com/evolutionary/aa.html. I am sure others
on the list have their bookmarks to share as well. These are just primers.
Of course, this is my bias, and I offer it as one possibility.
Look forward to your reply,
-sgp
ps: couldn't resist giving you more links, these describe a wide range of
possibilities.
http://www.archi.org/transarchitectures/t03/c_asymptote/00index_asympt_t03.html
http://www.aud.ucla.edu/~marcos/
http://www.jya.com/bc/ae.htm
http://jya.com/inci.htm (a much debated article)
http://www.activeworlds.com/ (an online community where 'citizens' can claim
'land' and 'build')
and on and on...