TECH IS MORE?

TECH IS MORE?
Minimalism in the new age of Architecture and Digital Technologies


ABSTRACT:

If less is more… is tech more?
In the age of new technologies, new materials and media, a new architecture-digital architecture- emerges, redefining space, function and form. The use of new technologies such as CAD (Computer Aided Design) or CAM (Computer Aided Manufacture), make easier the process of producing an architectural project and set the foundations for new concepts, new forms and new architectural volumes.
If Mies van der Rohe used the phrase “less is more” to describe his aesthetic tactics of flattening and emphasizing a building's frame, eliminating interior walls and adopting an open plan, and reducing the structure to a strong, transparent, elegant skin, then could we say that tech (as in technologies) is more, in the sense that in the contemporary time digital architecture could actually produce the same aesthetics, using these new technologies, but reconciliated to its time? And can digital technologies contribute to the creation of a new more abstract and complex minimalism?



KEYWORDS:
minimalism; digital technologies; complexity; new architecture;