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Digital Solipsisim and the Paradox of the Great ‘Forgetting’
Author(s) -
Spiller Neil
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1117
Subject(s) - forgetting , humanity , theme (computing) , product (mathematics) , focus (optics) , heading (navigation) , aesthetics , process (computing) , poetics , sociology , sight , computer science , architectural engineering , law , engineering , philosophy , art , political science , literature , poetry , linguistics , world wide web , physics , geometry , mathematics , optics , astronomy , aerospace engineering , operating system
Abstract Neil Spiller counters the main theme of this issue by questioning the dominant focus on production and new technologies in architectural culture, which places a premium on the generation of ‘ever more gratuitous complex surfaces and structures’. Could this inward‐looking emphasis on process and obsessive love of new technologies be at the expense of the final product? Are we in danger of producing artefacts that lose sight of human expression and poetics in the competitive drive for greater complexity? Are we, in fact, heading towards a great ‘forgetting’ in which humanity is subtracted from the architectural product?