Lecture notes

Lecture One

• How many pieces of technology do you use?  Uncountable
• What are the different types of computer packages an Architect might use?  Autocad, Archicad, 3ds max, google sketch up
• How many places are portrayed in Cisco’s RPS? 17
• What does Rosedale think he can solve with more technology? Solve the alienation modern technology helped to create with more technology
• When was the IBM Complex designed? Late 1980s
• What is additive colour? What i subtractive colour ? subtractive color mixing often starts with light color and goes darker by adding different colors, addictive colors method is used when we use a computer to generate a digital media. It begins with black and goes lighter by adding more color lights.
• What is raydiosity? How light is absorbed or bounce off from the object
• What is a graphic interface? Graphic interface is also known as graphical user interface. it is a type of user interface that allows people to interact with electronic device using image.

Lecture Two 

• BIM is ? Building information management
• BRANZ is? Building Research Association New Zealand
• What percentage of respondents in the New Zealand National BIM Survey use Archicad? 37%
• Template files are like…? Empty files with all the presets you need
• What was the software Gehry’s office used more commonly used for ? Engineering fighter jet
• What software do we have that allows similar forms?
• What colour is the surface of the Museum? The material used is titanium. It reacts with oxygen to form a oxide layer that reflects light. As a result the surface of the museum appears golden.

Teapot by Greg Lynn Form used titanium

• What is Cognitive Surplus? the ability of world’s population to volunteer, to contribute and to collaborate on large or global projects. Cognitive surplus relies on digital technology and human generosity
• What is the difference between the 20th century media and 21st century media? The media landscape in the 20th century was very good to help people consume. Now have media tools such as internet and mobile phones that give us the opportunity do more then consume, we also create and share.
• What is design generosity? Design something that intrigue our intrinsic motivation so we do things because we like to do them not because we are told or we are paid to do then 
• What are social constraints? Things you can’t do, because society says it’s bad. The social constraints operates without any contracts and it created a culture that was more generous than the contractual constraints did.
• What is Communal value? What is Civic value?  Communal value is the value create by participants for each other while civic value is the value created by participants but enjoyed by society as a whole 

   

  Lecture Three

• What is a vector image? A Vector image is the use of geometrical primitives (based on mathematical expressions) to represent images in computer graphics. It is based on images made up of paths which lead through locations that each of the points has a definite position on the work plan. It is consisted of smart lines which know where it comes from and where it goes.
• What is a raster image? A raster image is a dot matrix data structure representing a rectangular grid of pixels or points of colour. (series of dots formed structure)
• What is a diagram? A disgram is a two-dimensional geometric symbolic representation of information.
• What matters most in high quality rendering? Lighting
• What is a digital rendering? Rendering is the process of generating an image from a model by means of computer programs.
• What is drawn rendering? Rendering in visual art and technical drawing means the process of creating, shading, and texturing of an image, especially a photorealistic one. It can also be used to describe the quality of execution of that process. This is synonymous with illustrating.
• What is a pass? World broken dowm into layer/light/shadow.
• Who is  Cameron Sinclair?  the co-founder and ‘chief eternal optimist’ (CEO) for Architecture for Humanity, a charitable organization which seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crisis and brings professional design services to communities in need.
• Who is Toyo Ito? a Japanese architect known for creating conceptual architecture, in which he seeks to simultaneously express the physical and virtual worlds. He is a leading exponent of architecture that addresses the contemporary notion of a “simulated” city, and has been called “one of the world’s most innovative and influential architects.”
• What is a Mediatheque? The french translation is a media library or a reference library. A library is a collection of sources, resources, and services, and the structure in which it is housed; it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual.

 

Lecture Four

• Name two Industries that have given digital tools Animation and aeronautics
• What did the camera freeze? How do we see? Photography with its one point perspective has fronzen the way we created images and frozen into a simple perspectival idea.
• How did the computer aid Wes Jones to twist his building? generating horizontal and vertical site first, then develope different versions/ possibilities (how much of the twist they want to have).
• What is a Blob according to Preston Scott Cohen?
  • ‘An exact, yet rigorous’
  • It is not a randomly formed curve (not an instant curve), it is carefully constructed family of curves
  • Relate to landscape, resonating relationship: reinstall the shape
  • Distinct, rarefied, articulate, outside of any norm, undertaken to alter the relationship with other: intersection of geometrical shapes
• How did they make early ‘blob’ buildings? to use very classical geometric elements and look at the intersections of the forms.
• What do continuous and sinuous forms support?
• What is “an exact yet rigorous” form? a blob
• What is morphology?  ’Urban morphology’ is the study of the form of human settlements and the process of their formation and transformation.
• What are some of the new ideas/nontraditional things the computer enabled?
• What is mass constomization? the use of flexible computer-aided manufacturing systems to produce custom output.
• What is Digital box today?
• What will be your new ways of thinking in Architecture?