Architexturez. wrote: > Architect starts with idea that space makes life possible. Are you ready > to have all that you know challenged? > > Kenneth Baker, Chronicle Art Critic >
"Then what about cyberspace, which engages more of people's time today than anyone would have thought possible a generation ago? "Are we talking about virtual space in the sense of a CAD (computer-aided design) representation of walking through a building, which in the main I find fairly obnoxious?" Alexander asked. "I mean, making simulations of what you're going to build is tremendously useful if you can get feedback from them that will tell you where you've gone wrong and what you can do about it. My experience with CAD representations is that they give you none of that information, absolutely zero. It's strange actually. "Anyway that's one kind of cyberspace, and then there's the space of wherever software lives. I'm not talking about in the machine, I'm talking about the domain of everything you can write as a piece of software -- that's a huge domain and I've often had discussions with computer scientists about it because it's not quite clear what that domain is. With 3D space you can imagine the range of what's possible." To my surprise, at this point, Alexander brought up dreams. " cont'd.... http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/02/03/DDGJSH137740.DTL&hw=Kenneth+Baker&sn=001&sc=1000 _______________________________________________ in-enaction mailing list http://mail.architexturez.net/mailman/listinfo/in-enaction + Architexturez collaborative at http://portal.architexturez.org/
