NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #3/NN_1993_3.iso/spool/alt/architec/321

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From: [e-mail] (Ian Bygrave)
Subject: Career
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Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:10:25 GMT
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A while ago I posted a question about architecture degrees with an information
technology/computing slant. From the answers I've got it seems that many
architecture schools have good computing facilities and the focus for the use
of these facilities is as design tools.
I am very interested in computers as tools in many areas, including design.
But my interests also include the impact of "inteligent" and/or "autonomous"
tools on the environment, esp. the built environment. For example: how does
the posibility for inteligent services influence the design process? How does
the posibility for inteligent signage (built on a knowledge of the psychology
of navigation) impact the trafic flow problem? How can the environment better
serve its occupants, given the ability to inteligently manipulate them?
If there are any schools of architecture working on these or similar problems,
I would be very interested to hear about them.

I have been asked to post a summary of my replies, and that I will do when I
have recieved enough.

p.s. RE:crime and urban planning.
Weren't the long straight avenues of Paris designed to fire machine guns down?

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