Description
The seminar addresses theories of digitality and analogicity as the basis for critically engaging contemporary developments in architecture 'after the digital'. This course covers contemporary discourse on materialism, representation, and fabrication from a non-correlationsit point of view. Lectures and readings critically examine ideas and techniques of translation, transliteration, and superposition between the digital and the physical. Students will make two short individual and/or team research presentations on the role of the image in the definition of form, the shifting hierarchy of image and geometry, geometry and matter in contemporary production in architecture and allied media. Research projects may be affiliated with ongoing studio and thesis projects. Guest lectures and field trips will augment seminar lectures and presentations. The forthcoming Thames & Hudson book by the instructor will form a key reference for work in the seminar.