Database Network Interface
The Architecture of Information
Book, Caryatide, Paris, 2021
Database, Network, Interface — a project consisting of an exhibition and an essay— explores architecture’s historical role in representing and organising information and knowledge.
The project analyses architecture’s ability to structure the access to information and physically construct relationships between content through spatial, typological and structural organisation.
Information lies in an intermediate stage between raw archival data and its organisation in logical sequences. This process corresponds to the primary stage of knowledge production.
The project analyses architecture’s ability to structure the access to information and physically construct relationships between content through spatial, typological and structural organisation.
Information lies in an intermediate stage between raw archival data and its organisation in logical sequences. This process corresponds to the primary stage of knowledge production.
The examples presented in this project manifest this movement, as they provide physical forms for information and help its evolution into the knowledge state. The selection suggests the existence of a continuous dialogue between immaterial content and space and emphasises the crucial role of architecture in providing a configuration for the abstract process of the construction of knowledge
The paths through this book can be multipie, as the single cases may relate to one another in myriad ways. Like in Otlet’s Encyclopedia, the pages can be organised in various orders to reveal different journeys through the content.
The paths through this book can be multipie, as the single cases may relate to one another in myriad ways. Like in Otlet’s Encyclopedia, the pages can be organised in various orders to reveal different journeys through the content.