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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 and context of the Centre Pompidou, from the origins of its founding ideas in the mid-1960s to its opening in 1977. In particular, it looks at the design competition and how the verbal, graphic, and built statements of the project’s creators, apologists, and critics engaged the discourses of the post-industrial information society. [More...]

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.

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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.

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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...]

This catalog of the built and unbuilt villas of Andrea Palladio was carried out at MIT, Harvard University, and at the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza, Italy. In this multimedia database maps, photographs, texts and models combine to form a heterogeneous information model representing the interdependence of geopolitics and architectural theory in the Veneto of the late 16th century. [More...]

This project digitally reconstructs the famous octagonal hall of Nero’s Domus Aurea in Rome. The reconstruction is based on [?]’s survey [More...]