Compu-Kinetic Mediapod (2009)
article⁄Compu-Kinetic Mediapod (2009)
abstract⁄This paper describes an interactive experiment in which ‘middleware’ is interpreted as the architecture of nonbuilding, and the making of media as mediator between physical and visual temporal and fixed digital and analog. Leon Battista Alberti, Jorge Silvetti, and other architectural critics have posited that architects do not make buildings but, rather, representations of buildings. The simple translation of this is that architects make drawings, models, computer simulations, and the like for the ultimate purpose of making a building. This work challenges the notion that architects make only representation media, and expands the role of architecture to include mediation as an act upon a space that is both physical and analytical. What if architects make, but they don’t make for the end result of a building What if architects make representations that are physical and experiential, and that are designed and built without the presumption of a building This is the space that middleware occupies.
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| Year |
2009 |
| Authors |
Campbell, Cameron. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 09: reForm( ) - Building a Better Tomorrow |
| Pages |
281-283 |
| Library link |
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| Entry filename |
compu-kinetic-mediapod |
