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models (one in co-operation with Ben van Berkel) that have the potential to help

the overall research.

It would be unfair to assert that the references made in this paper are extensive

enough so us to cover the efforts of design courses at Schools of Architecture today

to liberate the immanent force of becoming from institutions that define rules and

regulations for the profession of architecture with the use of digital design tools and

techniques. To these efforts one should also add those that involve the integration

of IT in constructions. Even though efforts are located in selected continua, one can

assume that a process of convergence regarding views on the future of the city is on

the way. At the same time, though, it would be hard to overlook the fact that the

market continues to absorb technology or innovation in terms of fantasmagorie, a

word coined by Walter Benjamin to describe the "the glow surrounding the society

that produces commodities."^17 If fantasmagorie is an objective of post-modernity,

then design studios could avoid the restriction to image consumption and image

production by testing their 'simulacra' in informal zones of urban landscapes, the

zones that image-consumers^18 just pass along.

Notes

1 Brett, Steele "Split Personalities: Diagrammers vs Processors." RESARCH.NET. 07 June 2006

<http://www.resarch.net/20050324.html>

2 Antonino, Saggio. "Give Me a Cord and I Will Build...Construction, Ethics, Geometry and

Information Technology." ENHSA.NET. 30 April 2007 <http://www.enhsa.net/con5book.

htm>

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Example of student work at the Spacelab Research Laboratory at TU Delft.