it looks like a very interesting program
which has been (surprising to me) going on
for the last several years (when i thought
schools weren't doing much in the way of
understanding physical network technology
in relation to architecture). especially
liked the intro lineman image. there was
an exhibit traveling around the US about
social realist soviet artists whom painted
electrification propaganda which included
this same iconic image. interesting work!
[my opinion regarding the content would be
that the discipline of architecture needs to
examine the underlying structure of e-networks
to see what governs their logic of space-time,
such as electronics, routers, etc. but also
powerplants and media systems.. otherwise the
subject is only poetic and anything goes, but
not much is reusable data because it is all
so particular. why not examine the real (that
is instead of fictional) built environment in
studio environments. analyze the network from
an architectural perspective. analyze the e-
infrastructure and media systems to understand
their decentralization in personal computers,
and personal media. address media, cultural
theory of Marshall McLuhan, from Toronto i
believe, and there is a MM institute at the
U there i think, get them in on the archi-
project.. open up the exploration to include
examples from the everyday (factual) environ-
ment.. the tv, the radio, phone, as precedent
to the space-time,aesthetics,cultural order
of the e-network.. it is the same thing but
easier to see (de|con) in its evolutionary
parts. otherwise abstraction rules and the
future of architectural practice looks un-
focussed as to its relationship to e-tech].
bc
interesting project info in this table:
http://www2.arch.ubc.ca/research/vds/table.html
and liked this particular project:
MIT/XeroxPARC Studio (09-12/1997)
MIT | http://web.mit.edu/4.155/www/ |
XeroxPARC
Excerpt from MIT: MIT offers the opportunity to create an architecture to
host transient rather than static populations and to develop a new
understanding of space that is related to energy, flux, and conditions of
movement. Movement is a trope of our time in a multiplicity of ways as old
categories of organization, nation, citizenship, ethnicity and culture
become increasingly unstable. These contemporary geographies should find a
reflex in the organization of a 21st century institution, demanding complex
re-organization of temporal and spatial relationships. In response to the
spatial dispersion afforded by new information technologies, it is
hypothesized the physical campus becomes highly intensified and involuted,
to
maintain a topology of maximum proximity among actors, hardware, softwares,
and infrastructure. A new proxemics (micro-urbanism) founded upon
the construction of complex relational strategies between the spatial and
the electronic is a primary objective of the studio.
...
also,
i did get this error message from the
main page with the three schools and lineman
image, when clicking the pedagogy link:
SALA Server Error
You have asked the server for a resource that is currently unavailable.
(HTTP Error 404)
Document Requested = /EVNET/VDSP3.htm
A message has been recorded describing this problem. The web administrator
will look into it as soon as possible. If this is an
urgent problem, please send an email report to admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Places to look (for moved/renamed files)
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design homepage
which has been (surprising to me) going on
for the last several years (when i thought
schools weren't doing much in the way of
understanding physical network technology
in relation to architecture). especially
liked the intro lineman image. there was
an exhibit traveling around the US about
social realist soviet artists whom painted
electrification propaganda which included
this same iconic image. interesting work!
[my opinion regarding the content would be
that the discipline of architecture needs to
examine the underlying structure of e-networks
to see what governs their logic of space-time,
such as electronics, routers, etc. but also
powerplants and media systems.. otherwise the
subject is only poetic and anything goes, but
not much is reusable data because it is all
so particular. why not examine the real (that
is instead of fictional) built environment in
studio environments. analyze the network from
an architectural perspective. analyze the e-
infrastructure and media systems to understand
their decentralization in personal computers,
and personal media. address media, cultural
theory of Marshall McLuhan, from Toronto i
believe, and there is a MM institute at the
U there i think, get them in on the archi-
project.. open up the exploration to include
examples from the everyday (factual) environ-
ment.. the tv, the radio, phone, as precedent
to the space-time,aesthetics,cultural order
of the e-network.. it is the same thing but
easier to see (de|con) in its evolutionary
parts. otherwise abstraction rules and the
future of architectural practice looks un-
focussed as to its relationship to e-tech].
bc
interesting project info in this table:
http://www2.arch.ubc.ca/research/vds/table.html
and liked this particular project:
MIT/XeroxPARC Studio (09-12/1997)
MIT | http://web.mit.edu/4.155/www/ |
XeroxPARC
Excerpt from MIT: MIT offers the opportunity to create an architecture to
host transient rather than static populations and to develop a new
understanding of space that is related to energy, flux, and conditions of
movement. Movement is a trope of our time in a multiplicity of ways as old
categories of organization, nation, citizenship, ethnicity and culture
become increasingly unstable. These contemporary geographies should find a
reflex in the organization of a 21st century institution, demanding complex
re-organization of temporal and spatial relationships. In response to the
spatial dispersion afforded by new information technologies, it is
hypothesized the physical campus becomes highly intensified and involuted,
to
maintain a topology of maximum proximity among actors, hardware, softwares,
and infrastructure. A new proxemics (micro-urbanism) founded upon
the construction of complex relational strategies between the spatial and
the electronic is a primary objective of the studio.
...
also,
i did get this error message from the
main page with the three schools and lineman
image, when clicking the pedagogy link:
SALA Server Error
You have asked the server for a resource that is currently unavailable.
(HTTP Error 404)
Document Requested = /EVNET/VDSP3.htm
A message has been recorded describing this problem. The web administrator
will look into it as soon as possible. If this is an
urgent problem, please send an email report to admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.
Places to look (for moved/renamed files)
Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, & Design homepage