Our very own Archinect chief Paul Petrunia has been interviewed by Wallpaper Magazine. Paul will also be curating a week of content at Wallpaper starting October 1, so we're calling architects and designers to send us their best work to be considered!
Our very own Archinect chief Paul Petrunia has been interviewed by Wallpaper Magazine. Paul will also be curating a week of content at Wallpaper starting October 1, so we're calling architects and designers to send us their best work to be considered!
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It's pretty cool how Paul had the vision even way back then when many people did not even know how to send an email to dedicate such a good chunk of his life to this. Oh yeah and to render you needed quite a few machines, each doing a small piece.
I went to school with Paul and I remember seeing him in the hallways. I started SCI-Arc in 1997 it was really as he mentioned the inception of web content.
In any event I would absolutely echo the fact that I like many others have been using the web as an extension of my memory. I do not have to remember anything. All I have to remember is where to retrieve it. In many ways while having a conversation without an electronic device I feel like I cannot fully contribute to the conversation since I know what the information I want to contribute is but don't have all of it. I may just contribute a small piece of the information or inform the person I'm talking with as to where they can retrieve it.
Retrieving information is basically what Google and others do. And if you look at the "free" services which Google offers I often have the "Big Brother is watching me" feeling come over me. Having said this I like all the services they render because I don't have to remember all the information, they do it for me.
Information galore - not all thoughtful or thought provoking.
Paul is so dead-on when he mentions reverting to thoughtfulness. In Buddhism mindfulness is a very important act. The web and the way we interact with all it's content creates a blur (at least for me) of thoughts and ideas. Some stand out, some fade out and some just sit in the back of my mind doing nothing. Mindfulness is important because it helps us understand and contextualize where we are here and now.
As much as I like the web and it's helpfulness I think I may be too interdependent of it. I love information - but it is hard to use it in a way in which it actually really helps me unless I'm mindful of where I am and how I can use it. In order to do this I believe we need to keep away from it a bit more and physically do more with our time. The simple things which slow down time, like drawing by hand or doing a handmade model.
I don't quite know what the resolution will be. I do know that Paul is dead-on.
Come on, no picture of The Big Green Head with his child(ren?! Where have I been?!)?
Nice interview.
Go Paul!
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Aw, shucks, thanks guys. LB - at this moment I just have 1, but we'll have our 2nd at any moment now.
Any moment?!?! Yay!
without paul/archinect...there would be no puddles. now that's a humbling thought, even for me
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