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How Can Code be Used to Address Spatiality in Architecture?
Author(s) -
van Schaik Leon
Publication year - 2014
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.1820
Subject(s) - architecture , subconscious , code (set theory) , neglect , space (punctuation) , sociology , computer science , computation , data science , law , computer security , political science , psychology , history , programming language , archaeology , medicine , alternative medicine , set (abstract data type) , pathology , psychiatry , operating system
Is code entirely incompatible with an intuitive exploration of space? Leon van Schaik, Professor of Architecture (Innovation Chair) at RMIT University thinks so. He contests the usefulness of the data‐crunching capacity of the computer to truthfully model human flows. Moreover, he flags up a concern that an overemphasis on computation could lead architects to neglect an awareness of the place of their own spatial histories in the world, causing them to impose their own subconscious preferences on their clients.