2016.05.28 10:38
"Technology is a cruel tool" -Peter Eisenman
Eisenman uses 'resistance' as an example of something that cannot be attained through a design algorithm, thus inferring that a design of 'resistance' can only be attained via designing without the aid of a computer(?). He's just making something sound important when, in fact, it's nothing important at all.
It's fine if Eisenman chooses to design with the intention of manifesting resistance, but his design choices have no bearing at all on how one designs while using algorithms. Again, all he's really doing is trying to make the way he designs more important than the way students (supposedly) design via algorithms today.
Essentially, everything that Eisenman here riles against is just a straw man set up to make his way of doing things appear more important.
2016.05.28 20:38
"Technology is a cruel tool" -Peter Eisenman
It's beginning to seem more sensible that taking an algorithm, and producing 50 alternatives to the same problem is exactly what engenders the possibility of value judgment. It makes sense because you start to discern differences, opportunities, advantages vs. disadvantages, even what looks better. Yes, a nimiety of value judgment possibilities.
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