March 09, 2006
Living Skins:
Architecture as Interface
"Buildings communicate their function and status through a language of visual signs… What if a sign did not simply tout new movies, sodas, and celebrity babies in one-way feeds, but instead revealed something unique about the building, its occupants, or its environment? What if the building could respond, in real time, to the movement of people, the weather, or the whims of bystanders or behind-the-scenes artists? Digital designers and architects have begun working together to move beyond the facade and give buildings a living skin." From Living Skins: Architecture as Interface by Peter Hall. [blogged by Ruairi on Interactive Architecture dot Org]
Peter Hall is Senior Editor and Fellow at the Design Institute, where he edits the Knowledge Circuit and is co-editor of the DI's second book, Else/Where: Mapping, (University of Minnesota Design Institute, 2006). Peter is a contributing writer for Metropolis magazine and has been teaching a seminar class on design theory and writing at Yale University since 2000. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Posted by jo at March 9, 2006 12:52 PM
