Are We Digital? Pseudorthography and the Electronic Image

2019-11-30T09:00:00-05:00

The difference, in English, between the words “electric” and “electronic” is subtle but powerful. A simple definition might go something like: “electric” refers to things that use electricity as energy, while “electronic” is used to describe things that use electricity as a means to manipulate information. Therefore, a lamp is an electric object, but an email (previously e-mail) is an electronic letter. And yet, in the context of architecture, a field often troubled by semantics and syntactic nuances, we often take for granted our media’s relationship to electricity. Despite their reliance on electrical light, for instance, our drawings are still drawings, not e-drawings or i-drawings or any other variant that could separate them from mechanically produced media. Moreover, today the main difference between drawings, images, and photographs is simply derived from what file extension is used to format them.

Small Studio Snapshots: MILLIØNS

2017-01-23T12:11:00-05:00

Small Studio Snapshots is a series that focuses on, well, small studios. It's about the reasons why you might set up your own studio, and the things that may get in your way. Sometimes, it can be tough to be a small fish in a big sea—but the rewards can also be supersized.

This week, we're talking to the Los Angeles-based experimental studio MILLIØNS. Founded in 2011 by John May and Zeina Koreitem, both of whom also teach, MILLIØNS considers architecture "a speculative medium for exploring the central categories of contemporary life: technology, politics, energy, media, and information."

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Are We Digital? Pseudorthography and the Electronic Image

Small Studio Snapshots: MILLIØNS