Software as Infrastructure - e-flux

Editors Nick Axel, Nikolaus Hirsch

Contributors Amelyn Ng, Mary Ann O’Donnell, Andrew Witt, Helen Runting, David A. Banks, Space Popular

Within the history of computing, the dichotomy between hardware and software has been stubbornly persistent. Yet the understanding of hardware as a mere offering of computational power, waiting to be used by software, is false. As networked devices become smaller, more personal, more intimate, more quotidian, more indistinguishable from daily life and the self alike, it is use value, not abstract potential, that drives the future of technological progress.

Software as Infrastructure is a project by e-flux Architecture as part of “Eyes of the City” at the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen).

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Space Popular

Not so many centuries ago places, buildings and cities were their own and only form of visual representation. They stood in one place and could not be…

Where Do You Live?

David A. Banks

A scene from a likely near future: an architect wakes up to a chirping phone. She sits up and looks at the messages that prompted the noisy wakeup cal…

Clone Stamp: Maintaining Architecture’s Image

Helen Runting

Architects deal in imagined conditions, seeking to imbue their images with a mix of plausibility, desirability, and futurity so irresistible that the …

Feral Autonomies

Andrew Witt

It feels like only yesterday that a cat was a cat and a computer was a computer. But today, instead of tidy distinctions, humans, animals, and machine…

From Bamboo Curtain to the Silicon Valley of Hardware

Mary Ann O’Donnell

The Communist bosses of Peiping dropped a bamboo curtain, cutting off Peiping from the world. —Time magazine, March 14, 19491 After World Wa…

7D Vision

Amelyn Ng

On the surface, the way we document buildings may still look the same. Modeling software, like any other tool in history, helps architects depict, des…

Editorial

Nick Axel and Nikolaus Hirsch

Software as Infrastructure is a project by e-flux Architecture as part of “Eyes of the City” at the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Sh…

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Representation, Infrastructure, Automation

Software as Infrastructure is a project by e-flux Architecture as part of “Eyes of the City” at the 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Shenzhen).

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Nick Axel and Nikolaus Hirsch Editorial
Amelyn Ng 7D Vision
Mary Ann O’Donnell From Bamboo Curtain to the Silicon Valley of Hardware
Andrew Witt Feral Autonomies
Helen Runting Clone Stamp: Maintaining Architecture’s Image
David A. Banks Where Do You Live?
Space Popular FREESTYLE

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