“Le CCA créera la première banque mondiale de l’architecture numérique”.
[Isabelle Paré | ledevoir.com]
In relazione alla mostra Archaeology of the Digital, il CCA ha intrapreso un programma di archiviazione dei materiali di progetto digitali degli architetti che per primi hanno adottato software specifici sin dagli anni ottanta del novecento, quali Peter Eisenman, Frank Gehry, Chuck Hoberman, Greg Lynn, Shoei Yoh.
7 maggio – 13 ottobre 2013
mostra a cura di Greg Lynn
Archaeology of the Digital
CCA
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Centre canadien d’architecture
920, rue Baile
Montréal (Québec)
Canada
YouTube: Peter Eisenman: What makes great architecture?
YouTube: Frank Ghery on the creative process
YouTube: MIT 1982 CAD Lab
YouTube: Early 3D Computer Graphics Lab (around 1973?)
YouTube: Ivan Sutherland : Sketchpad Demo (1/2)
YouTube: Ivan Sutherland : Sketchpad Demo (2/2)
“TV show made about the software Ivan Sutherland developed in his 1963 thesis at MIT’s Lincoln Labs, Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System, described as one of the most influential computer programs ever written. This work was seminal in Human-Computer Interaction, Graphics and Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs), Computer Aided Design (CAD), and contraint/object-oriented programming. While watching this video, remember that the TX-2 computer (built circa 1958) on which the software ran was built from discrete transistors (not integrated circuits -it was room-sized) and contained just 64K of 36-bit words (~272k bytes)”.
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Ivan Sutherland alla consolle di un TX-2 utilizza una penna ottica per operare Sketchpad, il primo programma CAD, esito della sua tesi dottorale del 1963 [reprint 2003 pdf 4MB, da cui è tratta lʼimmagine] source: cl.cam.ac.uk