Global Mini-Series: That Lightbulb Moment - Architecture as Information
Document Type
Video
Date
Fall 10-1-2020
Keywords
architecture, lecture, Sam Jacob, design, information, material transmission
Language
English
Disciplines
Architecture
Description/Abstract
Sam Jacob
Principal, Sam Jacob Studio for architecture and design
Professor of Architecture, University of Illinois at Chicago
Marshal McLuhan told us that a light bulb is information, but that we don’t recognize it as such because it is information in its purest state. If that’s the case for a very small part of architecture, then perhaps it’s also true for the whole. But what might that mean?
The talk will think through this idea using a series of projects as jumping-off points – from early FAT works that imagined architecture as a form of communication to more recent projects exploring the material transmission of information through architecture.
Recommended Citation
Jacob, Sam, "Global Mini-Series: That Lightbulb Moment - Architecture as Information" (2020). School of Architecture Lectures Series. 214.
https://surface.syr.edu/architecture_lectures/214
Source
submission
Creative Commons License
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