The Ecstasy of Communication (Class Notes)

Beginning of class, we discuss technology revolution and publication or monumental through media sense. 

• New Agenda 1 (New Material)
• Rural Studio
• Mason's Bend Chapel 
• Lucy's House (uses recycle material)

• New Agenda 2 (Productive Landscape)
• (NIMBY)- Not In My Back Yard 
• urban zoning regulations
• Wetland Machine of Bidwell 
• K Timberlake/ Natural System 
• Trash Track - SENsable City Lab, MIT 
• garbage consumes more energy
• Public Farm - WORK architecture 
• MFO Park Zurich (Raderschall Landscape Architect + Burchhardt)

• New Agenda 3 (New Neighbours)
• New Communities 

Hyper Modernism 

• Where there is an excessive amount of technology 
• Is it inevitable that surveillance occur constantly
• Is it possible to be alone in hyper modernism?

FREE SPEECH - What is most influential? 

• Baudrillard mentions that form(freedom) of speech decreases in this hypermodernism world
• Is architecture = free speech?

Obscenity = negative in communication (is it positive in architecture?)

If form follows function --> is that obscene?

Baudrillard: obscene- as an over exposure of the scene leaving nothing to the imagination, are we creating more scenes than before?

Roland Barthes 

• From subjective "logic possession and projection to "logic of driving"
• Value of possessions decreases instead the circulation/"driving" increases