Digital fabrication technologies have revived the link
between architect and builder. Through robotics, highly complex and large scale
designs are being created. This lecture will discuss the reconnection of design
and construction and the roles of making.
In the emerging architecture of the digital era, more
architectural designs are materialized digital information- designed and documented
with digital software, fabricated with digitally controlled machinery and
assembled on site using digital technology. Architecture has evolved
significantly into the digitally driven type of architecture.
Douglas Engelbart claimed he invented the mouse and claimed
that it was necessary that humans required the act of communicating with each
other in real time to increase human intelligence. This idea grew into a
concept that involved the growth between computers and humans to become
submerged within each other so that the human would metaphorically become the
prosthetic. Which therefore led to the development of the mouse as an initial
attempt at ‘co-evolving’ into this futuristic concept.
Wigley has suggested that the mouse has to be both part of
the computer, as computers are previously define as a large, inorganic
machines. The rise of personal computing and the inclusion of the mouse in 1982
created a much more friendly experience. We are dependent on what we see on the
screen of virtual world, whereby the sensitivity starts to blur the distinction
between reality and virtual “two organisms into one, allowing the electrical
signals in the nervous system to simulate and be simulated by the electrical
signal in the computer.
References:
Wigley, M (2010), "The Architecture of the Mouse",
Architectural Design: EcoRedux: Design Remedies for an Ailing Planet, vol.80,
no.6, pp. 50-57.
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