For your final paper, you will choose one of the following topics and explore its relationship to Architecture and the constructions of time-space relationships. You should tie the topic back to some of texts that we have read in class as well as your own research in the area.
Digital Craft:
There is a growing number of computer numerically controlled (CNC) technologies that have been introduced into manufacturing as well as the design studio. Laser cutters and numerous CNC machines provide unique opportunities to engage making and design. What are some of the new challenges these technologies provide for architecture?
Market Time:
Logics of production and consumption affect many intersections between new technologies and the built environment. Long after assembly line manufacture, what are some of the changes we can identify with rapid prototyping, with uses of BIM in planning, but also in patterns of “subtraction” and in ways that telecommunications affect the workday’s time and the workplace’s organization? How does capitalism play a role in all this?
Bodies on Speed:
Paul Virilio has used the word “dromology,” the logic of speed, to discuss many constructions and destructions of time-space relations in our world today, as global technologies and communications advance into daily life. What are some of such opportunities and problems that continue to emerge, especially ones that affect the human body?
Networked Sociality:
Mobile and embedded interactive technologies coupled with online social networking sites have made it possible for us to be in touch all the time while being remote. This is providing unique possibilities for new socialities through entertainment, public gathering and online forums. How are these technologies altering the way in which we inhabit and use architecture, urban and virtual space?
Your paper should be 2500 words.
DUE: Monday, December 15th by 5pm. Word document emailed to me (jordang@buffalo.edu).
