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Architecture In Open World Video Games, Congshuo Zhang
Architecture In Open World Video Games, Congshuo Zhang
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Emoji Disorder: Using A Universal Digital Dialect To Enhance Architectural Communication, Doria Miller
Emoji Disorder: Using A Universal Digital Dialect To Enhance Architectural Communication, Doria Miller
Renée Crown University Honors Thesis Projects - All
The rise of digital communication has intertwined visual and textual information. As language continually updates to include pictograms, there is potential to update the language of architecture using these visual icons. Emojis are finding their way into our day-to-day vocabulary. In 2015, the word of the year, selected by Oxford Dictionaries, was the ‘Face with Tears of Joy’ emoji. These amicable emoticons tap into the architectural conversations from Learning from Las Vegas of the duck (symbol) and the decorated shed (signage) and themes of iconography as in Somol’s Green Dots 101. As emojis are not grounded in a specific verbal …
Peripheral Architecture, James Utterback
Peripheral Architecture, James Utterback
Architecture Thesis Prep
"By 2012 the 4G 'Anytime, Aywhere' digital age will be upon us and the air will be loaded with new possibilities for those with the hardware to tap into it. In the latter half of the 20th century, screen-mediated technologies generated an abundance of hybrid local/peripheral places. Movie screens, televisions, and computers challenged notions of privacy, location, and place by stretching people across the screen and into the screenspace. Where screens became pervasive the architecture became passive, often acting as an experiential shield from the local space, wholly privileging the space of the screen over the context in which we …