“Paneaux Objectile,” the decorative wooden panel was manufactured by a computer numerical command machine-tool, 1998. Joe Amarante - New Haven Register

“Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines”

Now-May 1,2015 

Yale School of Architecture gallery, 180 York St., New Haven

www.architecture.yale.edu

Exhibits at the Yale School of Architecture gallery are not for the easily perplexed. Think of these as “provocations for the future of architecture,” says an official.

Recent tech history, computer-aided design and virtual environments are the backdrop of “Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines” at the heady New Haven gallery these days. You take the stairs at 180 York St., just to one side of Chapel Street, and enter the architecture school for its latest mind-cramping exhibit. 

It’s actually the second of three exhibitions of “Archaeology of the Digital” at Yale, the first being last year and focusing on Frank Gehry and three other architects who were early adopters of the digital realm. This one presents the work of six architectural offices that experimented with computation, interaction and virtual environments in the mid-1990s and early 2000s.......Continue Reading

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