*Swell article about the lost worlds of early digital architecture. It's full of remarks that could use double underlining.
http://www.domusweb.it/content/domusweb/en/architecture/2013/05/15/archaeology_of_thedigital.html
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"But that is only the most schematic outline of a rich body of material. It leaves out, for example, the crucial role played by flaming robots. (Yoh’s preoccupation with the beauty of natural phenomenon does not exclude mechanizing floors and igniting jets of gas infused with liquid metals.) It also leaves out the important difference between curves that go whoosh versus those that go doink doink doink. (The former smoothness in preferred by Lynn as an implication of movement, the latter by Eisenman as an index of generation.) It is a testament to the institutional genius of the CCA that it is able to capture the shop talk that makes digital architecture feel at times like an occult practice alongside the documentary evidence that allows it to be historicised and approached critically...."
