Archinect - Imaginary Constructions: Architecture In Fictional Media 2024-04-19T15:35:40-04:00 https://archinect.com/blog/article/150003086/an-architect-s-guide-to-the-realm-of-nerds-and-what-we-can-learn-from-it An Architect's Guide to the Realm of Nerds, and What we can Learn From It sonairun 2017-04-14T16:42:11-04:00 >2017-05-08T22:12:58-04:00 <p>From a very young age, I have been intrigued just as much about the outside world, as I have been about the world inside of the books, video games, movies, and television shows I was exposed to as a child.&nbsp; I have always held that the architecture of fiction is just as, if not more interesting than the architecture we design and build in real life.&nbsp; While deadlines, budgetary constraints, zoning laws, and other aspects of professional practice may not allow such structures as the Tower of Barad-dur or the vertical planetary city of Coruscant to actually be realized, it is important to examine the structures we create in fiction in order to look at how we build, why we build, to whose agency we build, and to whom the intended usage is actually for within such buildings.</p><p>While this may initially&nbsp;appear to be a one-off blog covering simply the nerdy or geeky cultures, I intend to use this to look at such works of fiction to draw parallels to issues plaguing the architecture profession, ...</p>