To understand the evolution of the contemporary city it is necessary to see the influence that information technology (TIC) and the increase of its use is producing in society. Its application in different sectors of society is of extreme importance for urban development and marks the economic, social and political future of cities. ICTs are based on a spatial structure […]
The parametricism, or rather, the guru of parametricism, with its ill-fated manifesto has done a lot of damage to those who, like us, work with digital tools trying to stay on this side of formal banality. Parametricism may be a style. The parametric architecture does not. How to explain the differences? Well I do not know very well. Perhaps simply […]
In 1963, Ivan E. Sutherland, presents his thesis “Sketchpad: A man-machine graphical communication system”, directed by Claude E. Shannon, creator of the Theory of the Information. “The Sketchpad system makes it possible for a man and a computer to converse rapidly through the medium of line drawings. Heretofore, most interaction between men and computers has been slowed down by the […]
Have you realized that we have not written “on the relevancy of the digital thing in the architecture”? The article to which there in-cite us our darlings bRijUNi, waiting for my onslaught of miura, is going to allow me, to open some ideas. And eye; far from being obliging or presumptuous, I am going to try to speak not from […]
In the last years the term has used very much processes to say to an architecture that it is interested fundamentally for the events understood like feno’menos in process. Nothing to object. Podri’a to say even that the architecture in that we are interested has much that to see with the time and the understood events hereby. The question comes […]
“La arquitectura, la ciudad, característica del movimiento moderno, se ha estructurado mayoritariamente en un explícito reflejo de las jerarquías económicas (producción y consumo) de la sociedad. Lo cual ha ocasionado que en gran parte de esa ciudad, vertebrada a partir de la Revolución Industrial, no haya lugar ni señas de identificación con nada que no corresponda al proyecto colectivo para […]
“A place can be defined as a place of identity, relational and historical, a space that cannot be defined as a space of identity not as relational not as historically, one will define not place. (…)” “Not places, spaces of anonymity”, Marc Augé The cities make up, turned into perfect images, to be able to sham for what the company […]
Entered the 21st century there has vanished the city of the technologies of the information that were prophesying, a few decades ago, the futurólogos disguised as gurus. Neither it has come near to the totalitarian tecnópolis denounced by the nostalgic ones of “any last time always is better”. It turns out interesting to revise the bold Messianic predictions that the […]
We are the first generation of the history that forms a part of an immersed company in an unstoppable process of desmaterialización; whereas as architects we continue working with the slow and costly transformation of the materiality. The information has placed in the center of the economic, political, social and cultural development of our company, and there marks each of […]
In plenary session s. The XXIst our company tries to adapt to the fast transformation of the commanding current models, who are antagonistic over those that they predominated in last century. The company is situated immersed in a transition towards a new paradigm that already one was coming preparing from the Cold War, transition that we are experiencing as a […]
Entered in s. The XXIst, our company is adapting to a rapid transformation of the commanding models in the previous century, is situated immersed in a transition towards a new paradigm informacional1. These changes affect every citizen in the collective and private areas, and blur the borders that exist between them putting in crisis limits of the industrial company. We […]
Towards an informational architecture. Or how to do the same of a completely different way. I go time giving the tabarra with it of the informational architecture. So much that I could not stop gathering Alberto’s all or nothing when he asked me to explain it here. The jump that might produce to him in the manners of making myself architecture […]
Our presentation as villegasbueno arquitectura arquitextonica in SmartLab 2013 in Granada.