Title: How does technology impact architecture? | mafana
Headings: How does technology impact architecture?
How does technology impact architecture?
Mohammed Afana. Lecture
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Content: Just as Santiago de Compostela did for religious devotees during the Middle Age, the Guggenheim museum of Bilbao seems to cause rapture among those who reach it. It is the equivalent of a cathedral in the digital age, filling the void left by general decline in religious faith, but the relics her – The art on the walls and floor are not venerated nearly as much as the museum itself. An important difference between pilgrimage cathedrals and the museum of Bilbao is the new materials and technology available to the architect today. Gehry chose titanium rather than troublesome limestone as a skin, because he likes the way that titanium shimmers when the light reflects on it and it becomes alive. Frank said “I grew up as a modernist. Decoration is a sin, which is the mantra of modernism. So, if you cannot use decoration, than, how do you humanize a building? Material could be expressive. The talent of Frank and CATIA’s capabilities enable the cathedral analogy because no other historical comparison seems to apply. The builders of Reims, Charters and Santiago de Compostela sought to use the highest engineering skills and the best materials available to them to reproduce the glory of God.