Virtual Machines: Culture, telematics, and the architecture of information at Centre Beaubourg, 1968-1977
This doctoral dissertation examines the way in which the architecture of the library and museum in the late 1960s was conceived as a technology for the organization and dissemination of cultural information. It considers the overall history of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, from its origins in the mid-1960s to its opening in 1977. In particular, it looks at ways in which the verbal, graphic, and built statements of the project’s creators, apologists, and critics engaged the discourses of the post-industrial information society. [More...]
Engineering Beaubourg’s information spaces
From the outset, the Centre Pompidou was to be a live center of information. This paper situated the challenges posed by that vision in the context of emerging models of technical expertise in architecture.
The mediated spaces of the archaeological park
This paper considered the history of the archaeological park (the passeggiata archeologica) in Rome as a result not only of changes to the practices of curatorship, archaeology, and preservation, but also of the emergence of a modern information society.
Fieldworks: Art-Geography
I was a co-organizer of this symposium, which brought together practitioners from art, architecture, and geography to examine how emerging relations between geographical science and artistic production are transforming the meaning of information gathered in the “field”. The original symposium web site is here.
Architecture’s Media, Messages, and Modes
I was a co-curator of this exhibition (and co-organizer of the accompanying conference) that examined alternatives to the written text as the dominant mode of scholarly communication in architectural research.
Real Immaterial
Review of 2004 exhibitions of the work of Yves Klein at the MAK Center Los Angeles and Superstudio at Art Center College of Design. Read the review on the X-tra web site. [More...]
Domus Aurea reconstruction
Digital reconstruction of the famous octagonal hall of Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome. May not look like much, but it in retrospect not so bad for 1994 and Form-Z version 1.0. [More...]