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Data’s Hidden Role in Architecture
Most architects today think of data as a digital phenomenon – something that emerged with BIM, parametric design, and smart building technologies. But what if data has actually been shaping architectural practice for centuries, quietly influencing how we observe, predict, and instruct? The answer reveals a much deeper story about how architects have always worked […]
2025-08
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Most architects today think of data as a digital phenomenon – something that emerged with BIM, parametric design, and smart...
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I was recently interviewed at an EmAGN x Stockland event about non-traditional career paths in architecture. Below are the preparation...
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The Engineer’s Shadow: Le Corbusier and the Rise of Data as Abstract Representation in Architecture
2025-06
In the early twentieth century, architecture’s relationship with knowledge and control shifted through the growing use of abstract data as...
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The Politics of Abstraction: How Early Architects Gained Authority When we think about architectural data today, we often jump straight...
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I am very interested in data and how it influences our material world. Data is my focus as it relates...
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Observation is central to architectural practice, and always has been. Observation shapes how architects understand the world, make decisions, and...
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Data has rapidly evolved from a background technical tool into one of the most influential elements shaping contemporary architecture. Yet,...
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It’s a dreary Sunday afternoon, the kind that begs for introspection or escape. I stand at the window, watching the...
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Monopolies & Platforms
2025-05
Allister Lewis of ADDD.io presented at the Arch_Manu talk series and it started me thinking about monopolies and platforms. Which...
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From Gaza to Ukraine and the South China Sea, cartography is again a frontline weapon. Maps circulate to assert control,...
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I recently re-reading Yuval Noah Harari’s Sapiens and Homo Deus, and have been thinking about the leap he makes between...
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Machine learning models are rapidly transforming creative disciplines, from music to architecture. After listening to a recent RA Exchange with...
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I am writing the curriculum for a media communications course at UTS College and one of the theories taught to...
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Data is often viewed as a contemporary architectural phenomenon, emerging with digital technology and the internet. However, data has always...
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For those of you who live in Melbourne, Australia, Glenn Murcutt has designed this year’s MPavilion. For those of you...
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In “Super-users: design technology specialists and the future of design” Randy Deutsch argues that the Architecture Engineering Construction (AEC) industry...
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In just three weeks at the ARC Training Centre for Next-Gen Architectural Manufacturing (Arch Manu), I’ve already begun to grasp...
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It was an impulsive purchase, but a good one. I’d only just started reading a new issue of the Rhino...
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Sydney’s most famous Brutalist building and most high profile affordable housing sits in an area called the Rocks, known as...
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Live Coding Architecture
2024-12
Apart from architecture, I have other interests in music, coding and visual performance. When I found out they exist under...
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Repair and Dystopia
2024-12
It’s a dreary Sunday afternoon, the kind that begs for introspection or escape. I stand at the window, watching the...
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Running out of STEAM
2024-12
In 2016, I presented a paper “Running out of STE(A)M: A Critical Perspective on the Political Rhetoric of Innovation” at...
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The Ethics of Data
2024-12
As part of Thomas Fisher’s exploration of ethics in architecture, he considers the influence of data on humanity (Fisher 2018)....
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According to a report by Grand View Research, the global garden sheds market size was valued at USD 2.3 billion...
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Notes on a Planthroposcene
2024-12
Although Natasha Myers wrote the article “How to grow liveable worlds: Ten (not-so-easy) steps for life in the Planthroposcene” before...
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Decentering the Lecturer
2024-12
My experience of university architecture education was that your motivation for success was aligned with pleasing your expert tutor. The...
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Reading Before Prompting
2024-12
Step aside Virtual Reality and Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence is now the king of hype. As ever, Neil Leach provides a...
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Digital Fabrications
2024-12
Galo Canizares is a rare practitioner; he is an assistant professor of architecture but is an advanced digital technology user...
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Transforming the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry to meet our global sustainability targets is not just important, it is...
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Taking a Line for a Walk
2024-12
Part of my exploration of 3D printing is learning about other practices and their approaches. A key influence is Unfold...
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Laugier’s Lack of Data
2024-12
Students explore various characters who shaped culture through writing in my Introduction to Architectural History course. Apart from the big...
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Making in Mixed Reality
2024-12
Fologram Since Microsoft and Magic Leap announced their respective headset technologies in 2017, there has been a lot of hype...
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Mixed Feelings About Reality
2024-12
The Luddites would have loved mixed reality. In the previous post, I wrote about the potential benefits of using mixed...
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The Future of Architecture in Data-ism In Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Noah Yuval Harari extends the history...