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Architecture and communication
Architecture and communication

Author(s): Špela Hudnik
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Urbanistični inštitut Republike Slovenije
Keywords: bioelectronical bodies; information technology; media architecture; media membrane; megastructures; modern nomads

Summary/Abstract: The article presents effects of technology, science and capital strategies on changes in traditional forms and definitions of space, architecture and bodies. It confronts us with new processes of thinking and living that are constantly being transformed into new dynamic time and spatial contexts. Space is becoming the information filter, communication network. A cross-section of three landscapes: landscape of megastructures, nomadic landscapes and psychedelic landscapes, theory contributes to understanding of media and space-age technology, information technology and electronical language. It offers designs of various megastructures, media surfaces and envelopes of contemporary information society: the anthropological module, hyper- and infra-bodies, bio-electronical bodies and population genetics bodies. It presents the architecture of communication.

  • Issue Year: 14/2003
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 104-108
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: English