Yesterday at
SXSW I wondered into a session tittled
Meet The Architects thinking it was about IT infrastructure, but it turned out to be about buildings and the digital media that enables the endeavor.
A new kind of digital practice has emerged. We see it in our buildings and our cities: new architectural interfaces, new communities, new ways of thinking about the physical world around us. In "Meet the Architects," we'll take on these ripples in physical architecture and urbanism. This panel tracks new directions in architecture culture at the intersection of digital, film and urban environments; architecture zines, blogs and communities; and architectural and urban research.Molly Wright Steenson put the pannel together with
Bryan Boyer Harvard GSD,
Enrique Ramirez PhD Candidate, Princeton University School of Architecture,
Mimi Zeiger and
John Szot from The Brooklyn Foundry.
Architects aren't just building cardboard models anymore, they use Unreal Engine, YouTube, Flickr, blogs and community sites.