Visual Attention Software: A New Tool for Understanding the “Subliminal” Experience of the Built Environment
Eye-tracking technology is a biometric tool that has found many commercial and research applications. The recent advent of affordable wearable sensors has considerably expanded the range of these possibilities to fields such as computer gaming, education, entertainment, health, neuromarketing, psychology, etc.
Countryside, The Future
The seer of sizzling city architecture now says the countryside is where the future is being built – and it’s a ‘toxic mix’.
There’s No Reason for an Architect to Design a Death Chamber
As the country grapples with racial justice, architects should finally take a stand on the most barbaric aspects of a biased prison system.
(W)rapped Space: The Architecture of Hip Hop
This essay theorizes the development of an African-American spatial paradigm that at once recalls, creates, and deploys a new space of diasporian origin that is predicated on a response to spaces that represent an erasure of identity and, concomitantly, the presence of repressive power.
Architecture is Now a Tool of Capital, Complicit in a Purpose Antithetical to its Social Mission
Once discovered as a form of capital, there is no choice for buildings but to operate according to the logic of capital.