I did some more research on Marc Kushner and his work, as the ideas he discussed in his TED talk and elsewhere intrigued me. I can summarize what I have read of his ideas so far into three points:
1. He believes that one of the many trends in architecture is increasing interaction between the average inhabitants/users of a building and the people who design it through technology, specifically through social media.
2. The increasing interaction between the designer and the customer/consumer has prompted architects to produce better designs more suited to the public's needs and wants, and the public to be more likely to accept more innovative and abstract designs from architects.
3. The increased feedback and the elimination of reliance on millenia-old symbols in design to "trick" the public into forming an emotional connection with architecture based on other experiences. "This is the end of architectural history," he says.
Kushner describes a time when his firm designed and built an audaciously styled new building in a vacation community in New York. Everyone was "scared" about it - his firm, the client that hired his firm, and the community itself. But his firm assembled and released "a series of photorealistic renderings" on Facebook and Instagram. The renderings gave everyone involved (photo)realistic expectations of what it would look like, so that by the time the building was complete, "this building was already a part of the community."
This is where virtual reality technology comes in. Allowing the public to experience designs before they are built can create a feedback loop in architecutre, and the only way to truly allow people to experience a space that does not yet exist is using VR.
That's enough for today.
I also spent a lot (a lot) of time catching up on blog posts. Maybe I should be spending less time on blog posts and more time on doing things worth posting.
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