UC Berkeley's graduate architectural journal
Technology & The Box Issue 01
Rooms are for people. Boxes are for things. In his 1971 speech for the AIA Gold Medal Award, Louis Kahn began with the room as the basis of architecture and good design. The potential of architecture to come to life and have meaning lies in the careful handling of space. Through the thoughtful act of designing qualities of light, texture, and proportion, enclosure is transformed into something more than the sum of its parts…
Featuring work from Margaret Crawford, Simon Sadler, Ajay Manthripragada; Art Gray, and more!
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Managing Editor: Padma Maitland
Editorial Team: Zoe Beba, Kevin Block, Jesus Camacho, Caitlin DeClercq, Anisha Gade, Lotus Grenier, Kathleen Irwin, Cameron Johnson, Alec Stewart
Graphics Team: Mario Delgado, Julie Chau, Padma Maitland
Faculty Advisor: Greg Castillo
Contents
Technology and the Box
Maitland, PadmaLittle Boxes: High Tech and the Silicon Valley
Crawford, MargaretA Container and Its Contents: Re-Reading Tomás Maldonado’s Design, Nature, and Revolution: Toward a Critical Ecology (1970, trans. 1972)
Sadler, SimonPublic, Private, Protected: Encapsulation and the disempowerment of the digital architect
Steinfeld, KyleThe Seduction of the Glass Box
Ackerly, KatieEiffel’s Apartment and the Architecture of Dreams
Greene, Gina