MIT architecture dean to speak on urban issues Oct. 3
(Oct. 1, 2001)--The UTSA School of Architecture in collaboration with the American Institute of Architects San Antonio Chapter will host a lecture, "E-topia: Telecommunications and the Future of Cities," by William J. Mitchell, dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT, Cambridge. The lecture will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 3 at the Buena Vista Building Theater, Room 1.326 on the Downtown Campus.
Mitchell will discuss the global digital network as not just a delivery system for e-mail, Web pages and digital television, but as a vehicle for a new urban infrastructure. In his book, "E-topia: Urban Life, Jim--But Not as We Know It," he maintains that the new network will change the forms of cities much as railroads, highways, electric power grids and telephone networks did in the past.
Mitchell argues that we must extend the definitions of architecture and urban design to encompass virtual places as well as physical ones, and interconnection by means of telecommunication links as well as by pedestrian circulation and mechanized transportation systems. He proposes strategies for the creation of cities that not only will be sustainable but will make economic, social and cultural sense in an electronically interconnected and global world.
The speaker is also author of the books City of Bits, The Reconfigured Eye and The Logic of Architecture and co-author of The Poetics of Gardens.
Free parking for the lecture will be available under IH-35. For more information call (210) 458-4299.
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