About
- Introduction
Over the past several years, as the Architectural League has become increasingly involved in exploring the proliferation of various types of ambient, mobile, and ubiquitous computer technologies, we have often been asked, what does this have to do with architecture?
- Curatorial Statement
“When it is raining in Oxford Street the architecture is no more important than the rain, in fact the weather has probably more to do with the pulsation of the Living City at that given moment.” – Peter Cook
One could argue that this provocation by Peter Cook, published in 1963 in the catalogue for the Living City exhibition [...]
Commissions
- Too Smart City
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- Amphibious Architecture
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- Natural Fuse
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- Trash Track
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- Breakout!
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- About the Commissions
- On the selection process.
Events
- Thursday, September 17
- Opening Reception
- Friday, September 18
- Lunchtime Project Presentation: Natural Fuse
- Friday, September 25
- Happy Hour Project Presentation: Breakout!
- Saturday, September 26
- Scrapyard Challenge
- Friday, October 2
- Happy Hour Project Presentation: Trash Track
- Wednesday, October 7
- Sentient City Case Studies: New Songdo City and Meixi Lake
- Friday, October 9
- Happy Hour Project Presentation: Too Smart City
- October 14 - 21
- The Sentient City Charrette and Pin-Up
- Friday, October 16
- Happy Hour Project Presentation: Amphibious Architecture
Responses
- Dan Hill
This show does nothing less than delineate a possible future trajectory for architecture, in which it remains relevant in the development of ’sentient cities’, put frankly. It also implicitly indicates how far architecture has to go to do so.
- Enrique Ramirez
I must start off this piece on Toward the Sentient City with an admission: as I write this, I am unsure as to what my own take on this excellent and thought-provoking exhibition should be. Which hat do I wear? Am I a technologist? Kinda. An architect? Definitely not …
- Martijn de Waal
At certain points in the history of architecture and urban planning, the internal debate on how to apply new technologies surpasses the boundaries of the discipline. At those times, the hopes and fears found in the disputes between architects, policy makers, engineers and planners are extended to a broader discussion about urban and societal change.
Open Archive
- Initial Selections
The Open Archive is a collection of video documentation of existing projects related to the themes of the exhibition.
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- Reso-net
Mark Francis Tynan & William Hailiang Chen, 2007
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- Buscando al Sr. Goodbar
Michelle Teran, 2009
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