These projects looked more like isolated frames from the latest CGI Hollywood science fiction film than architectural proposals for sites in and around Sydney. A few questions revealed an institutional basis for this divide: the ‘Work in Progress’ exhibition represents the first wave of graduates who have undertaken units within the ‘Digital Architecture’ stream being offered at the UTS Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.  It is no coincidence that the recent evolution of architectural education towards the digital is also reflected in a paradigm shift occurring in contemporary architectural research and practice. Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect and theorist, has neatly coined this situation the ‘Box vs. Blob’ battle.
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