Hani Rashid
is a practicing architect in New York City. Asymptote is a partnership between Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, with a repertoire of works that include experimental installations, computer-generated environments, building design and urban planning. They have recently designed a large-scale computer-generated environment for the New York Stock Exchange and an accompanying "Theater of Operations", built as a component of the existing trading floor. Mr. Rashid is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture at Columbia University and has taught at Harvard and numerous other schools. http://www.asymptote.net Iscapes 1.0: Consumable Architectures for a Digital Culture The movement of the body today through virtual and real space is being redefined by virtue of information flows, image digitization, and multiple possibilities of augmentation. We inhabit this space of slippage constantly, shuttling between plastic solidity and an ephemeral liquidity generated by light. Within these intervals are architectures of various scales with protean meanings. The body-clad, contained, and in Motion-merges with these folds of mutated and transitional space, forming territories that allow us to move back and forth from virtual avatar to physical self, to be simultaneously off side on. Iscapes are digital studies extrapolated from the profusion of data, forms and spatial arrangements circulating through mass media and culture at large. At present, while meaning seems to be eclipsed by seduction, marketing, and iconography, the Iscapes are tied to demographics, consumer desires, and a culture influenced by an overabundance of fluctuating nebulous images and artifacts. Iscapes are neither appliance nor building, but continuous and fluid tracings appropriated from seemingly disparate, everyday objects. Extending the effects of mutation, distortion and delirium, they aim to retrieve a space between the possible and the familiar. The resulting architectural assemblies depart from chance operations to arrive at new and unforeseen configurations. At one moment body and object, they become metal, or another plasticity; a complex geometry and topology. Then, abruptly, absolute flatness. . . an image-space initiative based on parameters of displacement and transfer, where architecture is action, space reveals its control, and the body becomes a shield. See schedule.	program BILL BUXTON ANDY CAMERON MATTHEW CHALMERS DANIEL DÖGL BILL GAVER NEIL GERSHENFELD ANDREW GLASSNER PAUL HAEBERLI TOM HEWETT BREWSTER KAHLE PANU KORHONEN DOUG LENAT JO LERNOUT RALPH MERKLE THEODOR H. NELSON CELIA PEARCE MARK PESCE HANI RASHID BILL SCHILIT DAVID SMALL MARCO SUSANI JOHN THACKARA MICHAEL FREEDMAN TURNER WHITTED ANTON ZEILINGER
LIVE.SCOPE | ONLINE.SCOPE | ABOUT | PRESS | PROGRAM | REGISTER © 1999-2005 scope Verein i.G. & uma information technology GmbH ask@scope.at