Blog entry 3/9/2015 CoDe1100

In this book, Antoine Picon talks about the history of architecture and how digital technology completely changes the way architectural design works. Digital software has became the standards and required for the profession. Despite the massive technological change, Picon insists that we understand the roots of architecture and not just focusing on the present only. He explains that in the history, development and the present state of digital architecture, three themes will serve as main threads. the first one is the intimate link that the development of the digital technologies has the reshaping of our experience of the physical world. The second is the question of the individual. The third one is the growing importance taken by occurrences events and scenarios. He then talks about the actual development of digital tools. Machines such as the electric tabulating machine are one of the earliest systems used. The history of computers also played a huge role in architecture, such as the invention of the computer during the second world war appears as the next step in the quest for massive data processing machines that had already given birth to tabulators. The design of computers then reduced from room sized machines to desktop machines. Picon explains that we are now inseparable from machines, we rely on them for work and entertainment everyday. To the point where the interaction with machines has developed from mostly visual to interfaces that involves speech, touch and movement. An example would be the Nintendo Wii gaming console.