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Architecture, Cedric Price | #2 · Weiwei Xu

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I’m currently half way through “Architectural Intelligence” by Molly Wright Steenson. Since the beginning of my senior year, I have been fascinated by the relationship between the bits and atoms, the physical and the digital, the architectural and the computational. At some point, I would love to go to (or help create) a grad school that offers something in between, instead of one or the other. I also hope that, my senior thesis on “The “Space” of Computing” is only the beginning of my investigation in this area. “I feel that the real definition of architecture is that which through a natural distortion of time, place, and interval creates beneficial social conditions that hitherto were considered impossible.” In the quote above, I find it curious that he defined architecture as a way to distort time, place, and interval. To an extend, the word “distort” feels more intentional, genuine, speculative, and playful than words like “intervene”. “In Price’s work the purpose of technology was

Architecture, Cedric Price | #2 · Weiwei Xu Written while drinking water during the week of September 21, 2018 Architecture, Cedric Price | #2 “Technology is the answer, but what was the question?” Cedric Price asked. I’m currently half way through “Architectural Intelligence” by Molly Wright Steenson. Since the beginning of my senior year, I have been fascinated by the relationship between the bits and atoms, the physical and the digital, the architectural and the computational. At some point, I would love to go to (or help create) a grad school that offers something in between, instea

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