Week 2 Readings

The Archaeology of the Digital: Openings

Digital design in Architecture has increasing emerge to the society of the new beginning to the architectural. Fifteen years ago before the digital tools have become the major part of designs and planning, during that time there were minimal interacting between people and computer. The designs and sketches were mainly done by hand, the software like Autocad, Maya or Rhino, which has now become standard of the professionals, no Architectural practice has no longer could do without these technologies.  The history not only just begun fifteen years ago, during the early nineteenth to twentieth centuries the history of digital information which were define as “it was the society of information that made the invention of computer possible, not the reverse” (Picon 2010, p.9.) which know as the Second industrial revolution.

As the technologies opposed to the society, the outcome of this event has shifted the thought to the importance of software becoming the real infrastructure which Picon quoted as “Digital Architecture cannot be separated from the changes that effect the way we plan” (Picon 2010, p11.).  Picon has mentioned Peter Eisenman among many architects who endorse the new perspective by the digital. Peter Eisenman Biozentrum (1987) predefining the computer as a modeling tool rather than his design being the tool of the computer. Picon has also mentioned the return of the digital ornament replacing the tectonics as an organizing architectural principle “the surface condition rather than a localized element” (Picon 010, p10.).

Digital technologies evolving in all of our lives becoming an important role to our future, either positive or negative it’s the key element to the economic growth.

Reference List

Picon. A 2010, Introducion + People Computers and Architecture, Digital Culture in Architecture, pp.7-57.

Eisenman. P 2013, Biozentrum, Archaeology of the Digital 2013, pp.213-271.