Monday, 18 April 2016

WK 2 Readings

Klinger’s ‘Information Exchange in Designing and Making Architecture’ deepens the relation between technology and architecture, expressing how the two are closely related, almost symbiotic to one another, as one grows and changes so does the other, “… some day the one will be the expression of the other.” 1

Continuing on, it is clear that the technological change has sparked new ideas and designs in architecture, playing a crucial role in the future of architecture. Software further enables architects to create and develop complex forms, expanding their repertoire of possibilities made possible. Architects are able to further analysis, simulate and fabricate using 3d models, containing dense amounts of information, compacted within the digital file.

Kolarevic speaks closely as he expands upon the changes that the digital has had on architecture, talking about ‘experimental architects’ and ‘blobby’ architecture. In the process, architects should become integrated with said software, allowing them to become the ‘information master builders’, allowing for emerging architects to freely express their visions and designs.

The digital information that could be used in fabrication and construction soon eliminated the “time consuming and error-prone production of drawings…” This information essentially, reestablishes the lost link between architecture and construction via the means of these new digital processes. From this, architects are able to metaphorically become the builder by digitally producing the required information to manufacture and construct said buildings in superior presentations than what was currently available.





1.       Kolarevic, B. and Klinger, K. (2008). Manufacturing material effects. New York: Routledge. p.26
2.       Kolarevic, B. 'Information Master Builders' in Architecture in the digital age, 2003, New York, NY, Spon Press. p.88

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