All tagged dematerialization
Submission #147 | Rafaela Paes: City of Spirits — "The proposal is motivated by two central aspects. First, the need to adapt the dependencies of the FEP (Pernambucana Spiritualist Federation, in portuguese), located in Brazil, with the growing public, and, secondly, the possibility of a speculative project based on the relationship between the architectural artifact and the divine.
Jamison Sweat: Death of the Detail — "With the removal of the joint, more specifically, in the discourse of contemporary architecture, surface continuity and the diagram reign supreme. Jointless modernist organisms work so hard to detail in ways that hide the actual mechanics and ontological condensation of how buildings come into being. Tectonic is described in two realms, one pertaining to ontology, or how things come into being, and the other as representational, or the representation of a constructional element, which is present, but hidden."
Lois Huguet and Franca Kind: New Forms of Funeral Places — Japan suffers from a high lack of space. Decedents and ashes cannot be stored anymore. And if an alternative has to be found, the answer could be sought in contemporary technologies. Thus, a new state changement is allowed : from the human being to the digitized being.
