Days of future past: The architectural dream of cyberniticians

• Main Authors: Fernando Jerez Martin, Belen Pérez de Juan
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universitat Politècnica de València 2015-10-01
• Series: EGA
• Subjects: tecnología; arquitectura; protocolo; cibernética
• Online Access: https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/EGA/article/view/4046

Technology has transformed the space we inhabit. We are attached to an infinite thread with access to an endlessly dense weave, a new territory with unimaginable levels of connectivity. Even if Rem Koolhaas is still claiming an Architecture of walls, doors and locks in the last Venice Biennale, perhaps the new Elements of Architecture are those of passwords, firewalls, key encryptions and security certificates. The message is clear, nobody escapes technology. An invisible technology defines the new space, dissolving the walls of buildings. Experts say that this is only the beginning. But what if we are actually at the end point of this invisible, technological logic? What if the much advertised dissolving of architecture into technology occurred long ago? To undertake the research, we will review new arising theories in the 60s, where the encounter of Norbert Wiener´s protocols, Ashby´s randomized sequences, Pask´s Systems Research´s Group with Cedric Price and MIT Negroponte's Architecture Machine Group will generate a language to redefine the familiar in a new way, opening other windows for future research.