1 – Architecture, Science, Technology, and the Virtual Realm – On page 303 Picon talks about the “destabilization of form” and continues to explain how in the past, Architecture was the end point of a body of research, which creates equilibrium, and the building form “dominates the movement”. In contrast, he says that architecture today can never achieve this when generated on the computer because there is no end. I’m not entirely sure what “dominates the movement” and his comparison of dance and flow to architecture means. In addition, I would like to under stand his point of view further, as I’m not sure I agree. Why cant a computer generated building also have been the end result of research?

2 – Architecture, Science, Technology, and the Virtual Realm – On page 309 Picon says “Digital architectural forms truly belong to this context of globalization………they evoke two apparently contradictory terms: landscape on the one hand, texture on the other.” I understand the relationship of globalization and landscapes, but I don’t see how texture relates to globalization. Also is this to say that landscapes and textures are somehow opposites, or simply the two most notable topics?

3 – Simulacra and Simulations – On page 373, Baudrillard gives the example of simulating a hold-up after first declaring that a simulation is more dangerous then the real thing. after giving the bank robbery example, is he saying that simulations cannot occur unless under isolated conditions because the “established order” will always interfere? Is the significance of this, that when reality and simulations are merged, neither remains real/true to themselves?