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“Scanning, Storing, Checking: Architecture and the (Machine-Readable) Image”
in Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation, eds. Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus (San Francisco: Applied Research + Design / Oro Editions, forthcoming).
An essay ruminating on the politics, materialities, and digital labors of machine-readable images, and explores how certain acts of imaging have restructured — and has, in turn, been complicated by — architectural representation.

I focus on three simple yet ubiquitous techniques: scanning (drawing as a capture of reality), storing (drawing as a telematic database), and checking (drawing as a site of automated detection and compliance).

Andrew Kudless and Adam Marcus’s Drawing Codes: Experimental Protocols of Architectural Representation examines the effects of this transformation on the architectural discipline and explores how architects have critically integrated procedural thinking into their drawing process.

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“The Politics of the Architectural Profession. Practitioners expound on Climate, Equity, and Labour”
Koozarch, December 18, 2023
KoozArch interviews the organiser and the speakers of the symposium ‘Rethinking Practice: Climate, Equity, Labor’ at Columbia GSAPP.

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“Planetary Acounting / Scene from a Warehouse”
Perspecta 55, February 2023
This visual exploration is a gesture toward planetary accounting within machine-readable mediums such as building information models. Might the contemporary drawing itself — rather, architecture’s calculable image, riddled with 3D objects and corresponding spreadsheets — participate in more circular economies?

Text by Amelyn Ng, renderings by John Lewtas.

PUB_2023_ACSAREPORT
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Fellowships in Architectural Education
ACSA Report, 2023
Annual report on fellowships and equitable faculty development in architectural education. Tasked by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Researched and co-edited with 2022-23 ACSA Leadership Committee members Edson Cabalfin (chair), Kwesi Daniels, Marcelo López-Dinardi, Adrian Parr, Noah Resnick, and Kendall A. Nicholson.

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“From Models to Mirror Worlds”
Cultural Politics 18, no. 3, November 2022
This essay contemplates the media histories and politics of the digital twin: an accurate three-dimensional model designed to offer data-based simulation, predictive capability, and remote control over a material entity. Currently being developed across the spheres of industry, design, and “smart city” governance, digital twins are “digital-physical” databases purporting not only to represent the appearance of an object but also to capture or simulate all changes to its physical and informatic state, down to the bolt or data point. What are the media histories and stakes of a real-time digital simulation of the world? What of the desire to imitate the physical world in fully machine-readable form?

Through three episodes that contribute to the technological imaginary of the twin—the digital factory, the “smart” building model, and the 3D “dashboard” city—it shows how contemporary simulations do not simply reflect reality or create fictional ones but are committed to remaking reality over and over again—each time with greater efficiency, oversight, and predictability.

Illustrations produced by Madaleine Ackerman and Amelyn Ng.





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