Comments on: Fabricating the Digital Contemporary Moment: A Book Review

By: Ninjas on the ‘Net | AMNP

Ninjas on the ‘Net | AMNP — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:22:39 +0000

[...] interesting review of Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques [...]

By: Mark Hogan

Mark Hogan — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:20:48 +0000

I think it is fantastic that you question this work in its larger theoretical and historical context, I feel that this is a discussion that has generally been lacking. Digital Fabrication is often presented in a vacuum or in tandem with loosely-understood biological concepts without addressing its place in architectural history or the debt it owes to people like Semper. By referring simply to the structural properties of the designs, I believe there is a hope that a deeper critical discourse need not occur. It is very similar to the functionalist modernism of the 20th Century, where the desire to strip away ornament was presented with similar structural rhetoric. Of course, one only has to look as far as the decorative I-beams Mies attached to the facades of his buildings to see what was really going on.

By: orhan ayyuce

orhan ayyuce — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:35:13 +0000

concise review.
i have made a point of structural aspects and so called “safety of gallery” environment in my review of their sci arc gallery installation which ended up quasi nominating it as another “shade” structure.

thus:

“It may very well be unavoidable and advantageous to add some measure of political interference in the transmission line as these techniques get broadcast out of the screen and beyond the summer pavilions and gallery installations.”