http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=75138_0_23_0_C
(((I have to like these dewy-eyed critics who can't believe that flashy, gizmo-centric high-tech interventions can get people all emotionally disturbed. Welcome to the 21st century's second decade, fellas.)))
Link: Archinect : Features : Archinect Reviews: Design and the Elastic Mind.
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"It is fun to be an architecture student. We know the salty tang of laser-scorched chipboard, like chemicals and barbecue sauce. We let our computers mercilessly grind for hours, calculating the path of light through an imaginary place. We feed vectors to Adobe Illustrator until it rolls over and dies. We use industrial robots, as large and expensive as luxury cars, to make delicate objects out of foam and dust. Few other demographics are as adept at this kind of misuse, re-use, and abuse of technology. We can program these machines to destroy themselves.
"Architects, especially those of us that are relatively new to the field, have become inured to the use of CNC fabrication, augmented reality, visualization, scripting ... not to mention all the cultural/ science fictional narratives that get spun out to support and contextualize the accompanying artifacts. One of the greatest pleasures of MoMA's Design and the Elastic Mind is watching people outside those discourses discover these things for the first time. The show is complete sensory overload, and when I was there, the civilians were literally freaking out because they had no idea any of this existed..."
(((The show's over now, but folks, that was one hell of a show.)))
