{"id":421,"date":"2010-09-08T10:34:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T10:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/?p=421"},"modified":"2010-09-08T10:36:26","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T10:36:26","slug":"the-convergence-of-medium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/2010\/09\/the-convergence-of-medium\/","title":{"rendered":"The Convergence of Medium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_425\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_2386.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-425\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-425\" title=\"Construction at Carnegie Mellon University\" src=\"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_2386-590x885.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"885\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_2386-590x885.jpg 590w, https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/IMG_2386-950x1425.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction at Carnegie Mellon University<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Has architecture ever existed with out mechanical access? Recently after reading Carpo&#8217;s Architecture in the Age of Printing; It becomes almost blatantly clear that maybe it hasn&#8217;t&#8211; the creation of the printing press not only created design guide books, but, as a sub-creation, manifested an architectural community, where all were reading and design not only according to the content of the design books&#8211; but also to their standardization, a complete convergence of medium from printed material to architectural design. While this convergence of media lay in the depths of history, it could be an exemplar for the current tech\/architecture debate which is more suited to the 21st century&#8211; parametric and algorithmic architecture. While different from the printing press in actual tool or technique, there is a certain osmosis which occurs between designer and computation, affecting one another maybe in unforeseen ways. While this is only a shallow inspection of the current state of parametric design, I thought it important address the parallel[s].<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_425\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 600px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Construction at Carnegie Mellon University<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Has architecture ever existed with out mechanical access? Recently after reading Carpo&#8217;s Architecture in the Age of Printing; It becomes almost blatantly clear that maybe it hasn&#8217;t&#8211; the creation of the printing press not only created design guide books, but, as a sub-creation, manifested an architectural community, where all were reading and design not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[52,53,51,50],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-algorihmic","tag-media","tag-parametric","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurelbancroft.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}