30 November 2017

Week 13: Architecture, Science, Technology And The Virtual Realm

1.  Today, scale is hard to grasp and is a problem in digital architecture. Because of the extreme macro and micro scales, has the informational age loss the ability to think about the space in-between the large and small? Is Picon saying that globalization is the solution to the black and white spectrums?  
2.  Picon states, “Computer-generated architecture is about the unstable reality of infinite connections.” In terms of the virtual realm, what do you think he means? 
3.  Is Picon saying the virtual realm is the new materiality because of free constraint from qualities? Or is it relating to the cyborg with one side being control and the other freedom?
4.  What “abolishes the distinction between the abstract and the concrete as well as has a desire to reconcile the immaterial and the material?” How is it used not only in visual representation but also in practice?

5.   Since evolution of Architecture science technology has become highly stimulated and expressed, does this mean we need to return to “the humanist subject of the Renaissance? Or continue to grow exponentially?

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