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How Will Architecture be Affected by the Rise of Blockchain Technologies like NFTs?

2021-03-24T08:53:00-04:00

In the midst of a media cycle dominated by the ongoing pandemic, last week’s news that Christie’s sale of artist Beeple’s Everdays for a staggering $69 million made its way into national headlines. A rarity for any art event even in normal times. This served as a watershed moment for the growing online community of crypto collectors, whose use of blockchain technology and platforms like SuperRare to acquire digital art sold as Non-Fungible Tokens (or NFTs for short) has shaken up art sales in ways that are only now starting to become clear.

The Internet Was a Desert

2017-01-27T12:47:00-05:00

Looking for a picture that represents something related to the internet, we thought about the desert.

The Whistleblower Architects: surveillance, infrastructure, and freedom of information according to Cryptome (part 1)

2016-07-05T08:36:00-04:00

Architects are no strangers to controversy, but few have had their work called a “tip off [to] terrorists,” as The New York Times once described Deborah Natsios and John Young’s twenty year old project, Cryptome. Then again, few architects devote their time to disclosing government secrets, from the internal emails of Wikileaks to lists of alleged former members of the Stasi.

Towards a decentralized architecture with FOAM + the Blockchain

2015-12-09T20:26:00-05:00

Decentralized computation, virtual machines, cryptocurrencies: these terms seem to linger in shadows, conjuring abstract images of the “dark” web that lurks beneath the glossy surface of the screen. Architecture may be becoming “smart,” but we still perceive its domain to be brickwork instead of the tangled fiber optic cables it obscures – the walls that physically enclose rather than the signals that pierce.