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...engineering-as-architecture of London's 19th-century Crystal Palace, a place as stripped down and functional as a suspension bridge, but also from the Expressionism of Erich Mendelsohn, the German architect who brought a sensual component to Modernism. What Rogers arrived at was a way to make high tech not just lucid but surprising. Modernism expelled applied ornament. But by making an explosive aesthetic use of the raw, unadorned elements of a building, Rogers showed that, all by itself, the elemental could be ornamental...
...creates as a building disemboweled, with its intestines and even its skeleton on display. Sitting on the broad, cobblestoned (and mime-infested) plaza in front of it, it's not hard to imagine that the underground workings of the city itself have erupted upward. The Pompidou may be high tech, its exoskeleton may be a rationalist's grid, but it strikes a note of ferocious dislocations and forbidden disclosures that the Surrealists would have understood...
...research librarian in the Gutman Library and the chair of the University Library’s MetaPAC Committee, a group of librarians charged with overseeing Harvard library Web pages. According to Donovan, the Harvard LibX extension is based on an open-source tool, also called LibX, developed by Virginia Tech. The MetaPAC committee and library staff worked for two months to customize the software for Harvard’s libraries. Among other features, LibX also installs a toolbar sporting a search box for HOLLIS. Dragging text from a Web page onto another part of the LibX toolbar initiates a search...
Road warriors bemoaning impersonal hotel accommodation will get some relief the next time they check into Hong Kong's Langham Place Hotel, hongkong.langhamplacehotels.com. The 665-room property is already known for high-tech conveniences like streaming video on guest-room phones and hotel-wide wireless Internet access. Now the hotel has introduced customization features to its phones, allowing them to be programmed for each guest...
...multi-media exhibit “Nostalgic Technologies,” on display in the Transit Gallery of CGIS South until April 10, Boym manipulates technology to reevaluate photographs from her travels throughout Europe and America. Boym’s journey into what she calls “broken-tech art” began when she was printing photographs and her printer began to run out of black ink. When she hit the printer, vibrant versions of the original prints emerged, images she referred to as products of “the computer’s psychedelic unconscious...