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: 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. Guggenheim structure CATIA
CATIA has allowed Gehry to achieve tectonic construction that no Gothic or Baroque mason could ever imagine. Philip Johnson calls it the most important building of our time. He said that he wept when he saw the interior of the museum, because it provides irrefutable proof that the electronic revolution supplanted its industrial predecessor and that the profession will never face the same repressive physical restrictions again. Technology has a revolutionary potential in architectural practice and it is transforming its boundaries. This does not imply that all architectural practices are now doing their work in a revolutionary way.