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Digital Fabrications
Galo Canizares is a rare practitioner; he is an assistant professor of architecture but is an advanced digital technology user with projects that explore the edges of the web and data. He is right up my Straße. His work helps me position my practice, as he is somewhat of an outlier. Take his book “Digital…
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Live Coding Architecture
Apart from architecture, I have other interests in music, coding and visual performance. When I found out they exist under one activity, live coding, I became genuinely intrigued. After different experiments with gibber, tidal cycles, fox dot, sonic pi and orca I realised I should get back to doing architecture, but wondered if architecture could…
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Making in Mixed Reality
Fologram Since Microsoft and Magic Leap announced their respective headset technologies in 2017, there has been a lot of hype surrounding Mixed Reality. The ability to overlay human-readable information over a visible experience of the physical world provides a more versatile connection between the digital and physical than our current screen interfaces. I recently tried…
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Mixed Feelings About Reality
The Luddites would have loved mixed reality. In the previous post, I wrote about the potential benefits of using mixed reality in architectural design and fabrication. The combination of Hololens, software communication protocols (such as Fololens) and design software (such as Rhino 3D) produce a cyber-human-material system that combines the tactile experience and physical feedback…
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Reading Before Prompting
Step aside Virtual Reality and Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence is now the king of hype. As ever, Neil Leach provides a thought provoking lecture in which he summarises AI in Architecture; all through the Digital Learning Futures You Tube page. On the back of my PhD thesis about Architecture and data, I’m currently fighting the Instagram…
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The Ethics of Data
As part of Thomas Fisher’s exploration of ethics in architecture, he considers the influence of data on humanity (Fisher 2018). While his conclusions offer little consideration regarding architecture as a built object, he highlights the relationship between data and humanity’s relationship with nature. In doing so, though, he misses the importance of culture and human…
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The Future of Architecture in Data-ism
The Future of Architecture in Data-ism In Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Noah Yuval Harari extends the history of the human race, explored in his previous book Sapiens, into a speculative future involving humanity, nature and technology. Harari’s thinking centres around a common ground introduced up by data that organisms and computing machines…