This is the introductory lecture for the 'Architecture in the Information Age' module given in Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.

1. Architecture in the Information Age
Introduction
Dr Martyn Dade-Robertson

3. Motivation for doing this module.

4. My Background

16. What has architecture got to do with it?

18. Funding Event of Future Research Spaces: (Funding £5M)

19. Funding Event of Future Research Spaces: (Funding £5M)
30 Participants
How many were architects?

20. Funding Event of Future Research Spaces: (Funding £5M)
2

21. EU Smart Cities: (Funding £15M)
300 Participants
How many were architects?

22. EU Smart Cities: (Funding £15M)
2

23. What is Architecture Now?

24. Mapping the domain

26. Parametric Design
CAD Fabrication
Visualisation and Simulation
AI in Design
Information Architecture
Interaction Design
Augmented Reality
Digital Cities
Recombinant Architecture
Computational Analysis
Screen Architecture
Digital Urbanism
Cyberspace InfoVis

27. Parametric Design
CAD Fabrication
Visualisation and Simulation
AI in Design
Information Architecture
Interaction Design
Augmented Reality
Digital Cities
Recombinant Architecture
Computational Analysis
Screen Architecture
Digital Urbanism
Cyberspace InfoVis
Design Methods

28. Parametric Design
CAD Fabrication
Visualisation and Simulation
AI in Design
Information Architecture
Interaction Design
Augmented Reality
Digital Cities
Recombinant Architecture
Computational Analysis
Screen Architecture
Digital Urbanism
Cyberspace InfoVis
Digital
Architecture

29. Information Architecture
Interaction Design
Augmented Reality
Digital Cities
Recombinant Architecture
Computational Analysis
Digital Urbanism
Cyberspace InfoVis
Digital
Architecture

30. Information Architecture
Interaction Design
Augmented Reality
Digital Cities
Recombinant Architecture
Computational Analysis
Digital Urbanism
Cyberspace InfoVis
Computational systems applied
to the form and experience of
architecture.
Architecture applied to the form
and experience of computational
systems.

31. Information Architecture
Interaction Design
Augmented Reality
Digital Cities
Recombinant Architecture
Computational Analysis
Digital Urbanism
Cyberspace
Origins

32. Information Architecture
Interaction Design
Augmented Reality
Digital Cities
Recombinant Architecture
Computational Analysis
Digital Urbanism
Cyberspace
Origins

33. Origins
Material Information

34. Architectonic Systems

35. Introductory Lecture
Lecture 1 Origins
Lecture 2 Origins
Lecture 3 Loosing the Ballast of Materiality
Lecture 4 Cyberspace
Lecture 5 Augmented Space
Lecture 6 Sentient Space
Lecture 7 Programming Architecture
Monday 30th
January
Monday 6th
February
Monday 13th
February
Monday 20th
February
Monday 27th
February
Monday 5th
March
Monday 12th
March
Monday 16th
April

36. Assesment

37. • An individual 2500-word essay on the following topic:
The industrial revolution caused huge changes to society and to architecture and, during
this time number of new architectural typologies emerged including the railway
station, the factory and new types of civic and institutional building. It could be argued
that we are living through an equally transformative time in history – an information
revolution.
Despite significant changes to society in the western world we are only just beginning to
see significant changes to architecture and wholly new building typologies have yet to
emerge. The British library have recently faced the challenge that in order to acquire
funding for and validate their plans for a new building they also have to reinvent
themselves as a new type of institution.
In this essay I want you to imagine a new building typology fit for the digital age in a post
library world. You might take as inspiration Otlet’s imagining of the Mundeneum but
feel free to speculate about the what this building typology this might be.
ESSAY SUBMISSION: 12 noon Friday 25th
May

38. Blog

39. Blog: www.archaid.org