Following on from the Digital Architecture Conference which was 21st September, there is an exhibition on that is well worth visiting.

PHASE 2 Gallery, 8/09/09 – 2/10/09, 8 Fitzroy St, London W1T 4BJ, 9am – 6pm, ENTRY FREE

“Digital Hinterlands features a diverse range of work by some of the best recent architecture graduates from London’s Architectural Association, Bartlett, Royal College of Art, and University of Westminster. The exhibition reveals how the latest computational design and rapid manufacturing processes are providing new ways of understanding and designing space. From built models, 1:1 fragments, material experiments and installations, to interactive devices, virtual worlds and robotics, this exhibition presents the ideas of a wave of young designers, operating on the speculative hinterlands of architectural design.”

Johan Voordouw – Printed Aedicules: “The project sought to construct a library inside the scale of a book to form physical and imagined spaces on and through the page.”

Nick Szczepaniak – A Defensive Architecture: “a set of austere and stark coastal defence 
towers that have multiple functions. Not only do the towers act as an
 environmental protection device that serve as a warning to mankind of the
 dangers that lie ahead, but they are also repositories of knowledge. The militarised towers are alive — breathing, creaking, groaning, sweating and crying”

Marilena Skavara – Adaptive Fa[ca]de: “explores the functional possibilities and performative characteristics of cellular automata (CA). In addition to the unique emergent behaviour of CA, a neural network enables a further computational layer to evolve CA behaviour to the context of its surrounding environment”