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Author(s) -
Preston Julieanna
Publication year - 2008
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.672
Subject(s) - enthusiasm , exhibition , variety (cybernetics) , atmosphere (unit) , software , investment (military) , skepticism , visualization , architectural engineering , raw data , data visualization , data exchange , big data , computer science , engineering , visual arts , sociology , world wide web , law , political science , mechanical engineering , art , artificial intelligence , epistemology , psychology , philosophy , operating system , social psychology , thermodynamics , programming language , physics , politics
Contemporary design practice is being rescripted by digital technology. After advances in software engendered visualisation of new building form, followed by a mixture of scepticism and enthusiasm from the public, designers and builders, architects forged ahead to materialise speculative design. Julieanna Preston highlights an intellectual and industrial investment into the exchange between data (the means of communication as well as in‐forming content) and the affect of its instrumentality. A 2006 exhibition, ‘Digital Exchange’, charts digital fabrication technology's capacity to marry method and concept. While capable of creating an infinite variety of surface effects, such technology is questioned for its resonant potential to influence an affective atmosphere. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.