Thursday, August 9, 2012

week 3_reading

Brand, S., 1997. Shearing Layers, in How buildings learn : what happens after they’re built, London: Phoenix Illustrated. pp12-23 

This articles looks at the juxtaposition of ever changing architecture as buildings can have a long history and nothing is what it seems to truly be. It delves into the different facets of evolving architecture and highlights several examples of how easily a building can change and adapt every so often. That growth and change are inevitable and that it is possible for architecture to follow suit.

Zelfde, J. V., 2012. "The aspatial city." The continuous partial everywhere

This article goes through a few ideas of the future city seen through the aspects of today's social media tools and other at your fingertip applications. Zelfde discusses the benefits of all these applications and that fact you can not seen someone for years and still feel like you saw them yesterday through the use of these media tools. He also highlights the detriment this can cause as we are 'to connected.'  

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