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posted by Editor on Tuesday September 17, @08:03PM
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p_hagar writes "In an article posted at Columbia Interactive, the author cites work by Columbia University architecture professor Hani Rashid:
"...Rashid, responding to the recent growth of the Internet, conceives of the Web and virtual reality as "information space" best designed by architects not web designers. In his view an 'information architect' applies 'notions of spatiality, movement, light, texture, form, scale,' and other traditional architectural concepts to organize virtual space. Rashid's design of the Virtual Trading Floor for the New York Stock Exchange illustrates the practical application of interactive virtual architecture.""
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by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 19, @01:05AM EST (#1)
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/me shakes his head
When will they learn? In fact, this may be the worst one I've seen yet. The idea that you can design "information space" is laughable. Information doesn't work that way. It pops up. It forms serendipitous connections/relationships with other information. It's flexible and has a way of evolving. If anything, biologists can lay a better claim to information theory than any architect can. Columbia should fire this joker (probably has tenure, though), or at least find a way to keep him from talking about things he really doesn't have expertise in.
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The linked article has a link called "3D trading floor" that triggers a barrage of popup ads worthy of a porn site. Webmaster: kindly do not link to this garbage. Not everybody can install a popup killer on all the computers they use.
Thanks.
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