Journal of Architectural Education: Introduction

The digital vanguard's much touted campaign to " dematerialize " our physical bodies and environments wasn't nearly as extensive as many early cyberculture theorists had predicted. We have not traded in our corporeality for virtuality—nor have we exchanged all of our brick-and-mortar schools, churches, and communities for virtual versions. In fact, many architectural theorists, sociologists, psychologists, geographers, and scholars in related disciplines argue that as our media have become ever more virtual, the design and development of our physical spaces—through architecture, landscape design, and urban and regional planning—have become even more important. If our media and our built spaces do not follow parallel evolutionary patterns, what is the relationship between these two human productions? This course examines the dynamic and complex relationship between media and architecture. We will look at architecture as media, symbols and embodiments of particular ideas and values—and at the impact that communication media have had on the practice of architecture and the way we experience our environments. In laying the groundwork for the course, we will first address theories of architecture as text, as language or semiotic system, and architecture as mass media. We will then turn our attention to models of production and consumption that apply to both architecture and media. After equipping ourselves with a vocabulary and a theoretical framework, we will trace the contemporaneous development of media and architecture from the scribal era in the Middle Ages to the digital era of today and tomorrow. In the process, we will find that underlying and inspiring these two systems of cultural production throughout history are certain foundational elements—particular value systems and stages of consciousness, epistemologies and ontologies, cultural perspectives and worldviews. Throughout the course of the semester, you will be asked to attend class regularly and contribute meaningfully to class discussions; complete challenging weekly reading assignments composed of several short texts, which you will be expected to synthesize; compose two short papers; write a review of an art or architectural exhibit addressing issues relevant to the class; and develop and complete a rigorous final research paper or creative project.

Grid - architecture, planning and design journal, 2022

Increasing permeability of disciplinary boundaries results in the theoretical and conceptual mobilities among different disciplines. Architectural theory has a unique position within these transactions since it transformed into an ever-expanding knowledge terrain via interdisciplinary perspectives. By undertaking different modes of appropriations in the architecture-media relationship, this study aims to disclose the directions and extents of these transactions. For this reason, a comprehensive literature survey was performed on certain databases. From these searches an examination list is created by selecting the studies focusing on media and architecture. Next, these studies are categorized based on their dominant themes and analyzed via Michael Ostwald's model, which is composed of uni-directional, hybridization, and multi-directional appropriation modes. The study found that architecture predominantly and more easily engages with media in the uni-directional mode since this mode does not affect the basic premises of the discipline and just expands its knowledge domain. Yet, hybridization and multi-directional appropriations are also observed, resulting in more significant impacts on architecture's disciplinary knowledge. This significance is primarily due to the interpenetration of the concept or theory appropriated from media and the transformations it suggested for architecture's premises. Specifically, in multi-directional appropriation, architectural theory and media theory intertwine preeminently. The study concludes that it might be the shared origin of two knowledge fields as revealed in the concepts of extension/prosthesis that underlie the convenience of these conceptual transactions.

Grid, 2023

Increasing permeability of disciplinary boundaries results in the theoretical and conceptual mobilities among different disciplines. Architectural theory has a unique position within these transactions since it transformed into an ever-expanding knowledge terrain via interdisciplinary perspectives. By undertaking different modes of appropriations in the architecture-media relationship, this study aims to disclose the directions and extents of these transactions. For this reason, a comprehensive literature survey was performed on certain databases. From these searches an examination list is created by selecting the studies focusing on media and architecture. Next, these studies are categorized based on their dominant themes and analyzed via Michael Ostwald's model, which is composed of uni-directional, hybridization, and multi-directional appropriation modes. The study found that architecture predominantly and more easily engages with media in the uni-directional mode since this mode does not affect the basic premises of the discipline and just expands its knowledge domain. Yet, hybridization and multi-directional appropriations are also observed, resulting in more significant impacts on architecture's disciplinary knowledge. This significance is primarily due to the interpenetration of the concept or theory appropriated from media and the transformations it suggested for architecture's premises. Specifically, in multi-directional appropriation, architectural theory and media theory intertwine preeminently. The study concludes that it might be the shared origin of two knowledge fields as revealed in the concepts of extension/prosthesis that underlie the convenience of these conceptual transactions.

Looking at the environment and considering the history, a change, which cannot be easily called development for it is not clear if to be negative or positive, can be easily noticed. The human being is the cause of this change because unlike other living creatures, we are not exactly natural beings. Although our basic needs look very similar to others, especially of animals, main survival skill of human is knowledge. The first definition of the term of knowledge in the dictionary is "the fact or condition of knowing something with familiarity gained through experience or association" 1 . It is a concept alien to other creatures while it is inseparable from human-beings. We as humans think, dream and execute our daily functions through the knowledge we own. Therefore, the people needed and have created tools to acquire knowledge, to store and to share it. However, this relation of the human with the tool she created is rather complex and can be considered as circular for each new tool invented results with a different perception giving rise to new demands. However, this circular relation is not a continuous process always reaching one step further but rather an interlaced web jumping back and forth. In this essay, I will try to get clues of this relation looking some examples of artworks from different media and try to understand this relationship in relation to architecture referring to the articles covered in class discussions.

2018

Architecture is watching today to new extensions of its methodologies, lived where the architectonic space and the urban space present a set of experiences that overcome the condition of architecture itself, bearing as a cause the technological development that allowed to overcome the boundaries of representation and projection of the architectonic object, thus breaking the paradigm that seemed to dominate this field. If we add this to a growing proliferation of image support, sound and text that are melt into a kinetic and interactive form, we are now watching to a new and unprecedented experience where the media have a relevant role. The new concept of Media Architecture melts audio visual drawing and architectonic drawing in a dynamic experience. In order to understand the new technologies applied to architecture, one must understand if we really are in front of something really new or if we did not rehabilitate old processes with new architectural means. We intend to search in time influences of old media in architecture so as to create new sensorial experiences thus realizing that the media and architecture have further origins. So, we approach some ideas we consider relevant to meet the origin that supports and justifies an alliance between media and architecture. The question is: what media apparatus do we look for in time that may support this correlation between architecture and the media?

Architecture in the Age of Mediatizing Technologies, 2025

This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses. It introduces the novel concepts of apparatus-centricity and mediatization of architecture, which have significant disciplinary and cultural ramifications. Highlighting key technological and theoretical developments, the book’s narrative traces the transformation of architecture from the modernist era to the present, digital age. En route, it reflects on how architecture becomes a crucial element of shifting dispositives through its confluence with technologies of aestheticization and virtualization, and by emblematizing ecological ideals. It also illuminates the reconfiguring of architectural practice through examining surprising interactions and analogies between architecture and music, whose developments in notation and codification continually change the relationship between composer and performer. The book explores how architecture is reshaped by broader theory and practice in media and ultimately serves as a cognitive agent. It underscores that architecture profoundly influences our phantasmagoric, image-driven affective world through its increasingly apparatus-centric approach to conception, design, production, and mediatization. Architecture in the Age of Mediatizing Technologies brings into focus the behavior of architecture in mediatization for researchers and advanced students in architectural design, theory, and history. As an investigation into the interdisciplinary impact of architecture in a mediatized culture at large, it also provides a valuable resource for cultural and media studies.

A media façade – here understood technologically, primarily as light or animated pictures generated by electronic devices (although there are examples of kinetic, that is, mechanical media façades) is not an ornament, that is, its function is not merely decorative, but, with its potential as metaphor and for interaction, it is a mode of communication between architecture and environment, that is, the observer/passer-by and the city.

The Journal of Architecture, 2016

LIVENARCH 8th International Congress, 2023

Before 2000, popular culture was represented by newspapers, radio and television. With the change in the dimension of technology, social media tools, which have influenced humanity on a global scale, have become the new representation of the media. With these tools, social, political, psychological, and economic orientations can be identified, and directions can be easily made on an individual, societal, and global scale. Social media, which has provided a research area and tool for many disciplines in recent years, also provides an environment for the discipline of architecture as a representation of virtual space and human behavior. Architecture can contribute to architectural education, theory, and practice by viewing the social media field as a space production/design environment and as a data collection area. This study aims to support the determination and further development of the achievements of architecture through media studies by scrutinizing the discipline of architecture in studies on social media tools in the literature. The methodology involves analyzing articles published from 2010 to the current day, indexed in the Scopus database. An overview of the various social media platforms' roles in this field is provided. Using VOSviewer, the study maps the potential knowledge domains that each social media platform supports. Social media tools have, in this context, re-generated the scope and methodologies of scientific investigations to be conducted in the field of architecture. This re-generating enables hybrid studies that combine classic and established research methods with cutting-edge techniques. This study, conducted at the nexus of social media and architecture, is intended to serve as the foundation for future research in architecture.

The Digital Age & Architecture: An Exploratory Essay I was young when computers started to remodel the world; I remember my mom yelling at me to turn the internet off so she could answer the phone. At that time, I had no idea that a new Digital Paradigm Change was underway, revolutionizing how the world operated. This paradigm change is the biggest since the Industrial Revolution, with digital technologies making advancements all over the world. As part of the Millennial Generation, I grew up with computers, making it hard to think what the world was like before such technology. Learning from a young, I started my Architecture Degree with an astute aptitude in digital technologies.