The Paradoxical Wall - How Social Media has Infiltrated Behaviour towards Architecture

The paradoxical wall

How social media has infiltrated behaviour towards architecture Preface: This essay has been crafted in a way to combine the content with the platform. Utilizing the technology of social media, the format has been constructed using Twitter. The essay aims to construct itself around a series of tweets that thread together to form the overall text. Restricted to the constraint of Twitter’s 280 characters or less, the tweets aspire to be read at the speed of which one would scroll the feed. Additionally, this series of statements, while they can be understood as a continuous whole, are also each aphoristic in tone and able to be understood independently of their surrounding context, in the same nature as a tweet. A main feature of Twitter, which I deliberately choose not to utilize, is the interaction of multiple users on an individual feed. Instead, the essay excludes the conversation of multiple users, seeking to highlight that social media ultimately is not a platform to connect, contrary to this, it is an impersonal form of communication, it is a mirror for the user, a reflection that reveals only you, the individual.

Therefore, the structure of this essay alone can be dissected as a reference for the content. Representative of all varieties of social media in the ability to constantly scroll through a live feed of posts, Twitter in particular highlights a time-controlled platform. Designed around a restrictive character limit, the maximum amount of time spent to read through each tweet highlights its consistent flow of information, continuously presenting new content.

Finally, the act of this essay being chronologically read in reverse emphasizes its reliance on the twitter platform as a live stream of tweets presented as most recent first. Thus, please begin at the least recent tweet #1.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 25 It is for the architect to decide: do they design for the demand that leads a new form of confinement or do they design for a separation that, if given the framework, may expand beyond the screen that the user may decide?

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 25 We need an architecture that brings the user back into one place.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 25 Are we sliding into an unforeseen nature of life without first stopping to evaluate the consequences?

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 25 The world does not and cannot revolve around a single user, to eliminate social acts is to change the fabric of our lives. It is not that this change cannot be done, but we must first question, do we want this to be done?

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 25 Who needs the world when you have the cosmos.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 25 #Space Placing the world at the fingertips removes the necessity for the world altogether.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 23 The architect must design so that truth cannot be distorted. To design not for sight alone, but for all senses. A design whereby in excluding context, the content becomes only a shadow. To design as a material architecture, to elevate the human senses that it must be occupied.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 23 For the present age, to crop is to record, but this is not an accurate recording.

All context has been lost.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 23 The screen is consumed with the image, the image only is sacred. Yet, the image distorts from reality, it does not capture, it captures an essence, and then overlays it with the illusion.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 23 #Context The image has overcome a desire for the original, representation over reality.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 22 Architecture that is designed to be permanent in a world of constant refresh shall eventually enter into the abyss of endless posts, by which it cannot escape. To design as an ephemeral architecture is to constantly renew the post, to be always on display.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 22 The screen is built to endlessly flow, a design platform that infiltrates design.

Thus, architecture is to embrace this quirk, to design to die, or else it will die a more neglected death.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 23 The screen is not designed for community, it is designed for continuity.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 23 #Speed In a world of constant connectivity, we find ourselves in isolation. The user cannot enter into interpersonal interaction no matter how hard they try.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 22 The architect must display a new screen, a screen that claims back the physical through learning from the virtual wall. The architect must consider these three aspects of: speed, context and space.

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The Paradoxical Wall @DisplayScreen . Mar 22 Social media has infiltrated the way we experience architecture through the speed at which it must adapt, the context in which it may or may not sit, and the necessity for physical public space to be inhabited.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 21 The screen has transformed us all into inmates. Architecture may become the prison, or wait for the consumer to be freed.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 21 We are to question ‘what is the nature of this new interior in which we have decided collectively to check ourselves in?’ ‘What is the architecture of this prison in which night and day, work and play, are no longer differentiated? @BeatrizColomina 29

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 21 The architect must either choose to sit and wait for the screen user to wake up from their digital reality and re-enter the physical world or to design in such a way that forces the user to look up from their screen, re-entering the physical world.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 21 I do not believe that architecture should design only for the bed and the computer, to do so is to design a prison.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 21 We work, we play, we talk, we bank, we walk through an endless list of activities but we do not walk at all.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 21 It is not that all physical space is under attack by social media, more, that physical space has become irrelevant for the screen user.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 21 Architecture has become a design around the screen. Programmatic separation exists only between bed and server.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 21 ‘Columbia University scrapped plans to build a $20M addition to its law library and instead bought a Connection Machine (a stateoftheart supercomputer)…

Library users would no longer…physically retrieve books’ instead ‘at computer workstations, they would enter queries’ @WJMitchell 32

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 21 Education has expired the need for the physical building, replacing it instead with digitally encoded text.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 20 To the architect, separation has become irrelevant, space as obsolete. For the screen user, their identity becomes the screen, their physicality becomes irrelevant.

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Even FaceTime has outdated the GP. @NowGP #Telepharmacy

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 20 ‘Going out, going to work, going to school or to church, going away to college, and going home are economically significant, socially and legally defining, symbolically freighted acts. To change or eliminate them…is to alter the basic fabric of our lives.’ @WJMitchell 29

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 20 To live, work, entertain, cure, trade, bank and educate can all be achieved through the virtual wall. However, if we cannot distinguish between urban and public, commercial and housing, ‘how can social organisations be legible?’ @WJMitchell 54

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 20 We conceive the world through a narrower lens than ever before, and the question of who am I? can be answered by our screens. How so? Because we do not venture beyond the screen, the architecture of the home and the inclusion of social media is all that is necessary.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 20 With the screen most occupied under the sheets, a new form of architecture emerges, a horizontal architecture.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 20 From Hugh Hefner, who famously almost never left his bed, to Truman Capote, who claimed to be a ‘completely horizontal author.’ Ironically the bed is no longer a place ‘to rest but to move.’ @BeatrizColomina

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 20 The whole universe can be viewed through a small screen, and all this may be done in the comfort of your own bed.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 20 The streets are no longer the hotbed for social life. ‘Millions of dispersed beds are making concentrated office buildings obsolete.’ #JonathanCrary @BeatrizColomina 29

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 The wall has replaced our physical spaces for interaction and replaced it with a controlled search based system that connects only within the world that our minds are limited to.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 Social media has not further connected the world, instead it has provided a surface of connection that cannot develop to a form of relation. It becomes the same as saying a cartoon is my friend.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 A necessity for local community, McLuhan believed, ‘would become redundant as more and more of our connections would occur virtually.’ @MarchalMcLuhan 2

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 The absence of congregational activity has not ascended from thin air, media futurist Marchall McLuhan anticipated its coming in 1964, that the ‘city as a form of major dimensions must inevitably dissolve like the fading shot in a movie.’ @MarchalMcLuhan 32

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 The moment we can live stream on You-Tube, we no longer have a need to attend informative meetings, furthermore, the development of Skype has removed the need for meeting all together.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 ‘It will no longer be straightforward to distinguish between work time and “free” time or between the space of production and the space of consumption.

Ambiguous and contested zones will surely emerge’ @WJMitchell 29

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 ‘It is not the living room, or even the bedroom…the bed has become the epicentre of the universe.’ @BeatrizColomina

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 ‘Yellow social media report found that 34 percent of social network users admitted to logging on at work, 13 percent in school, 18 percent in their cars, 44 percent in bed, 7 percent in the bathroom and 6 percent on the toilet.’ @Ani 54

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 The question may be asked, ‘where are the spaces of social media?’ @BeatrizColomina 2

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 Within the comfort of our own homes, ‘we will find ourselves able to switch rapidly from one activity to the other while remaining in the same place, so we will end up using that same place in many different ways.’ @WJMitchell 2

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 ‘The relation between the technical and social systems is thus treated as a problem of consumption,’ With an ease of access for all activity quite literally at the finger tips, spatially programmed architecture has become antiquated. @BernardStiegler 32

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 It has already been said that communication has become isolated, yet it goes a step further, it has been replaced with self.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 The wall on the screen has replaced the physical wall, a need for separated spaces has become obsolete.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 Overall social media is a platform that allows for a communal interface, but it is not social. It is isolated.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 ‘If a design like Facebook or Twitter depersonalizes people a little bit, then another service…might soon come along to aggregate the previous layers of aggregation, making individual people even more abstract.’ @JaronLanier 54

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 On the surface, social media is a collection of images and text, a ‘social relationship between people that is mediated by images’ and words, yet, it is in reality an echo-chamber that reveals what we want to see, detaching us from reality. @GuyDebord 2

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 The wall is a dream world that detaches us from reality, presenting only that which we will respond to.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 It is often perceived that the social platform is nothing more than a form of connectivity, a social realm in which we communicate. This perception is wrong. The wall is constructed to form a database that endlessly reflects self.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 The platform by which we entertain our minds and express ourselves ‘in turn can change how you conceive yourself and the world.’@JaronLanier 32

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 The way we correspond, the way we inhabit and the methods by which we document has changed in accordance to social media. ‘One might ask, “If I am blogging, twittering, and wikiing a lot, how does that change who I am?”’ @JaronLanier 12

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 Social media has penetrated the very practice of mankind, spreading like a virus, it has become an all consuming platform that has altered the way we experience architecture and the progression of architecture.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenStorage . Mar 19 Living within a social media driven society, moving at a constant pace that can only ever accelerate, constructing our own truth through a removal of context and manipulating the image to overlay our perception, conclusively merges together to question, who am I? 29

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 I question if this is at all possible: can the millennial see without the screen?

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Overthrowing the wall creates spatial design that must go beyond sight (a sense that is so easily deceived.) Designing to absorb, to touch and experience without the screen.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Overthrowing the wall constructs ‘a world that is no longer directly perceptible to be seen via different specialized mediations,’ @GuyDebord 4

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Architecture can respond in one of two ways. It may take the easy route, to design for the wall, a surface level architecture that adapts in accordance with the social media. Or it may respond to overthrow the wall.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 ‘The line between what is private and what is public, what is inside and what is outside, has been radically redrawn.’@Beatrice Colomina 26

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 ‘The at home photo booth is a natural evolution: rather than functioning as a prop to make your life look more Instagrammable, it obviates the existence of a dwelling altogether.’@AlyssaBereznak 32

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Reflecting back on the real space, Instaset backdrops have become precedents to design, our décor has been chosen by not for the wall but by the “wall”.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ HomeScreen . Mar 18 There is now on Instagram a trend named Instaset backdrops. Designed to change the dreary kitchen surface or dull wall into a modern home interior.

From clean tiling, to slate surfaces, the portrayal of the home is changing wholly.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Even within the home, objects are removed from context.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 The home has taken a forefront position for the Instagrammers’ no-context architecture. Yet, it does not stop with the façade.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Despite a new form of screen perspective architecture, architecture to be snapped runs perpendicular to architecture that is to be inhabited.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18

@RueCrémieux is filled night and day with screens that capture a shallow architecture.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Residents of Rue CrĂŠmieux, a cobbled street, pastel painted stretch of homes, find that the demands of Instagram are exhausting. The screen does not care about inhabiting the building, it cares only for the surface.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Social media is obsessed with the wall. It strips away any other context of architecture. To the interface, the wall is architecture. It is an elevation-only design platform.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ HomeScreen . Mar 18 Yardhouse meets the demands of a surface level design, and the interface user cares not if it achieves anything more.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Yardhouse consists of a wall of aesthetically beautiful tiles, the Instagrammer gives little credence to anything other than the tiles. The timber frame building has been designed outside and in, yet, the removal of the wall could arguably be the removal of the architecture.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 A clear example of paper-thin architecture is the famous Instagram wall designed by architects Assemble.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Scenography as design has become paper-thin architecture.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Work in which the viewers place themselves becomes ‘an integral part of the artwork, placed centre stage in a piece of constructed scenography.’ Yet scenography within architecture remains as just that, a form of stage design. @OliverWainwright 12

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The Paradoxical Wall @ HomeScreen . Mar 18 ‘The immense popularity of public sculptures such as Anish Kapoor’s Cloud Gate in Chicago, a mirror-polished bean that reflects visitors and the surrounding skyline in a warped bulge, has led other cities to seek similarly sharable spectacles,’@OliverWainwright @AnishKapoor

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Architecture is now valued in accordance to the screen. Media is publicity, and publicity becomes support. ‘Instagram is having an increasingly visible influence on the kind of work being commissioned to adorn our cities.’ @OliverWainwright 2

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 The image cannot capture how to experience the space, how the architecture captures lighting, or atmosphere, or sound, it cannot be grasped on the screen, only represented.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 The image is captured and the architecture becomes obsolete.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 The image is cropped and edited to re-purpose.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Architecture has become a surface level experience, it becomes an image.

Lived through the screen, the image ‘feels at home nowhere’ for the image ‘is everywhere.’ Architecture is then not situated in a site, it becomes without context. @GuyDebord 12

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The Paradoxical Wall @ HomeScreen . Mar 18 Tangible aesthetics are no longer enough, architecture must wear the coat of representation; a mere representation of the architecture that replaces the very architecture itself.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 With a removal of context, content becomes easier to manipulate.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 According to the interface, the world is experienced differently, it is experienced in isolation. Each post, each tweet, a single pin must stand on its own, separated from context.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 As we scroll through a feed of images, all context has been edited out, we see the world through a lens, a lens that constructs its own truth.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 To freely exchange is optimistic at best. Images that aim to include actually exclude. ‘Images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream, and the former unity of life is lost forever.’@GuyDebord 6

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 The freely exchanged image reveals a beauty of social media, the web as one of the wonders of world, participation. A platform on which is engaged by all, inputting and constructing of content that is freely shared, the cloud that is on cloud nine.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 It is not that we have replaced travel with the image, instead the image has altered experience. These images claim to be shared freely, thus freely exchanging experience.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 ‘All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.’ @GuyDebord 12

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The Paradoxical Wall @ HomeScreen . Mar 18 As we visit fascination, we no longer absorb, instead we click. The site becomes a photograph, a content that is overlaid with filters, that crops our perception, manipulating and abstracting according to the tools we have.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 It may be argued, that spaces are still experienced, but what is experience?

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 When the screen becomes our source of information, the screen becomes our truth.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 Instagram will take us to the beach, Facebook will gain entry into the concert, Google maps will help to achieve an understanding of context, and Twitter updates us with what has been happening.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 With the physical removed, we gain understanding through what we can experience on the screen.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 We see only what the screen reveals to us. We are entertained by a system that revolves around what we have previously responded to. The algorithms have formed a content that gives you what you see, what you like. It presents to you, you!

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 In modern society, experience is of the screen. We no longer experience space through our eyes, but through the extension of the screen.

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The Paradoxical Wall @HomeScreen . Mar 18 ‘But certainly for the present age, which prefers the sign to the thing signified, the copy to the original, representation to reality, the appearance to the essence… illusion only is sacred, truth profane.’ @Feuerbach 32

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 As social media dominates time, architecture must adapt. With free-time, work-time, school-time, bank-time and home-time being consumed by screen-time, architecture must be designed around a new time, to form a constant feed of architecture.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ ScreenTime . Mar 17 The architect must embrace a new form of design, to design as social media.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 The social platform that the modern world has become so consumed within does not offer permanence, instead temporarily fulfilling curiosity. In outcome, this is a sad truth, however, permanence cannot keep up with the user when the user is consumed within the interface.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 #ToConclude architecture as a movie trailer must understand a shift in communications, it is not here to inspire, but to entertain. In essence, the quest for knowledge is merely a quest for curiosity. Thus resulting in a design that scrolls through life.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 In answer to his own paradox Rem Koolhaas combines the 21st century and memory to coherently justify design that can exist in a constant feed whilst designing in a world that is 3000 years old; ‘what we offer the present is memory.’ @RemKoolhaas 6

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 Rem Koolhaas states the dilemma of designing for the 21st century, to concretise a constant feed. How to design for a client that inevitably will change his mind, and at the same time maintain one of architectures greatest strengths; memory!

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 Koolhaas places a predicament on the changing brick when he states ‘Architecture stands with one leg in a world that’s 3,000 years old and another leg in the 21st century. This almost ballet-like stretch makes our profession surprisingly deep.’@RemKoolhaas 4

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 The aim of the architect that embraces change is not to adapt the brick, instead, to change the brick.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 Architecture as a post that is viewed, liked, maybe even shared, and then replaced by the subsequent post. This approach is to design around the death of architecture as we know it. To design for a window of time and then to be replaced.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ ScreenTime . Mar 17 To design in consideration of the speed at which new revolutions are occurring, there is a way in which the architect to respond: #2 for the death of architecture. To admit they cannot foresee the progression of the feed and therefore design as a single post.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 For an architecture that was to last for generations, Robin Hood Gardens was sequentially led to demolishment only one generation later. #aSadParadox 2

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 The design of Robin Hood Gardens planned for the future development of technology. Smithson claimed it was an architecture that could ‘accommodate people’s equipment in all mod-cons, lasting generation after generation’ @PeterSmithson

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 To design in consideration of the speed at which new revolutions are occurring, there is a way in which the architect could respond; #1 to design around new innovations while foreseeing the next, a design that is able to accommodate the current and predict the future.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 *Architecture must revise its approach to new revolutions.* 4

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 “Architecture is a profession that takes an enormous amount of time. The least architectural effort takes at least four or five or six years, and that speed is really too slow for the revolutions that are taking place.”@RemKoolhaas 32

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 We live in an influx of continuous entertainment, for architecture to respond it must become as the movie trailer. Architecture that can be absorbed in a snap, in a world where to linger is simply nostalgic.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ ScreenTime . Mar 17 Our perception of time has not sped up in an endless refresh of conversation; it is more that our mind demands an increased flow of input. The feed must move quicker, images are to flash faster, for we have seen it all before.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 In order for conversation to progress, communication must entertain our curiosities; this is the only way it will satisfy our time. Words of the screen must endlessly refresh. And as people become an interface, the world becomes a commodity.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 ‘Impersonal communication has demeaned interpersonal interaction.’ @JaronLanier 4

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 Conversation in digital form has transcended to a point that values people as the feed itself, receiving our attention as we take a break from a more scheduled activity.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 Conversation of the screen has become self-central, orientating around the consumer’s demands. No longer do we see a person behind the screen, our conversation BECOMES the screen.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 Social platforms do not allow us to linger, to slow down; instead they consist of quick replies that can be picked up or put down at any time. Our approach to communication revolves around our individual movements; momentary pauses between tasks are employed with replies.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 The conversations we have are now placed into a constant form of movement.

Set into other activities, they occur on the go. No longer is there a time for conversation; it is all the time or no time at all.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 No longer do we confer face to face, instead we mingle in isolation. We occupy our words in the solitude of our own bedrooms. The bed alone has been made international.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ ScreenTime . Mar 17 The social platform creates an impatient quest for knowledge but also an altered form of communication. The time of conversation has been changed.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 To load is to leave.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 As Social Media is presenting a constant feed of information, the mind is able to scan through the content at a perpetual speed, absorbing, consuming and reciprocating, in return the interface must respond instantaneously.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenTime . Mar 17 On average, Facebook is checked 14 times a day. Each time it must show new content, a new thread. @PaulButler/Facebook

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 If we connect to every part of the world, are we ever in one place? Can we ever be where we are?

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 What is the architecture of social media?

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 Like the hologram, physical reality has become overlaid; we now inhabit digital reality like the physical. Yet inhabiting a digital world questions if we can occupy a physical world.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 ‘Technologies are extensions of ourselves…our identities can be shifted by the quirks of gadgets.’ @JaronLanier 2

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 The screen does not consider its environment, it is an autonomous platform.

Editing out all context, it becomes a filter of our perception.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 The screen has become an extension to our eyes. With constant connectivity, the screen has questionably become a necessary, or more poignant, reliedupon viewing device in which to experience space.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 The brick is choreographed by the algorithm, the screen now impacts the way in which we interact with space, move around space, see space, and the way we use our homes more so than architecture achieves.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 Architecture must evolve as quick as a movie trailer, yet, the brick does not transform as fast as the algorithm.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 No longer do we linger, instead we scroll, we search, we surf… we blink, we pin, we tweet, we like, we react, we post, we comment, we share… we blink life now moves at the speed of a movie trailer.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 Mass networks of interactive screen has resulted in a truly 24/7 culture, a culture that works everywhere. * This * culture is to never stop.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 We are living a 24/7 culture that does not stop. Yet this no longer exists in the office block as Jonathan Crary visualized on the cover of his book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the End of Sleep. @JonathanCrary

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‘Industrialization brought with it the eight-hour shift and radical separation between the home and the office…post-industrialization collapses the work back into the home.’ @BeatrizColomina 4

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 The social platform as an intangible reality has supplanted the physical space we inhabit as an all-consuming existential plane.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 A social network is not isolated, neither is it intentional, but through a desire for greater connectivity, the reality we inhabit becomes blurred: a social platform as a speculum.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 The wall has overlaid our spatial understanding of social, placing on top a new understanding of interaction, a form of interaction that sees only a reflection.

The image that returns in a pursuit of communalism is a reading of today’s society, conclusively individual.

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The wall is advertised as a platform to share and exchange freely, yet, ‘The algorithms are so strong, they only give you what you like’ information scans through your mind like a 15-second advert, ‘but all you see and hear is you.’ @AdamCurtis 4

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 The wall reveals a dream world that we are secure within, yet, it detaches us from the reality we once knew.

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The Paradoxical Wall @ScreenMirroring . Mar 16 Spatially, the wall is set to divide, separate, isolate, to split between the in and the out, to mark territories within the land. Yet, today, we are faced with a new wall, the virtual wall, set to fade the dimensions of the city and create an international communication.

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4. Curtis, Adam. Living in an Unreal World: Hyper Normalism (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMM7p2blVXs, 2016) 5. Kelly, Kevin. The Inevitable: Understanding The 12 Technologial Forces That Will Shape Our Future (Penguin Books, New York, 2016) p88.

11. Colomina, Beatriz. Public Space? Lost And Found (MIT Press, London, 2017) p256.

12. Crary, Jonathan. 24/7:terminal capitalism and the ends of sleep (London:Verso, 2013) cover page.

19. Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not A Gadget (Penguin Books, London, 2011) p4.

24. Butler, Paul. Facebook Map (https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/visualizingfriendships/469716398919/) 33. Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not A Gadget (Penguin Books, London, 2011) p4.

37. Koolhass, Rem. Architecture has a serious problem today (https://www.fastcompany.com/3060135/remkoolhaas-architecture-has-a-serious-problem-today) 40. Robin Hood Gardens. Exclusive Dezeen footage (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5oeyk60IdA) 45. Koolhass, Rem. Architecture has a serious problem today (https://www.fastcompany.com/3060135/remkoolhaas-architecture-has-a-serious-problem-today) 47. Ibid.

52. Feuerbach. Preface to the second edition of The Essence of Christianity 60. Debord, Guy. The Society of The Spectacle (New York, Zone Books) p12.

63. Ibid.

68. Ibid, p23.

72. Wainwright, Oliver. Snapping point: how the worlds eading architects fell under the Instagram spell (https:// www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/nov/23/snapping-point-how-the-worlds-leading-architects-fell-underthe-instagram-spell) 2018.

73. Ibid.

74. Ibid.

77. Archdaily. Yard House, Assemble (https://www.archdaily.com/527175/yardhouse-assemble) 2014 81. Garun, Natt. Parison Residents (https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/18253180/paris-rue-cremieux-instagramstreet-gates-over-tourism) 2019.

86. Instaset Backdrop (https://instaset.eu) 88. Bereznak, Alyssa. Home is where the photobooth is: how Instagram is changing our living spaces (https://www. theringer.com/tech/2019/1/23/18193574/instagram-photo-wall-personal-home) 2019.

89. Colomina, Beatriz. Public Space? Lost And Found (MIT Press, London, 2017) p254.

91. Debord, Guy. The Society of The Spectacle (New York, Zone Books) p17.

96. Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not A Gadget (Penguin Books, London, 2011) p4.

97. Ibid. p6.

100. Debord, Guy. The Society of The Spectacle (New York, Zone Books) p12.

101. Lanier, Jaron. You Are Not A Gadget (Penguin Books, London, 2011) p28.

104. Stiegler, Bernard. Technics and Time, 1:The Fault of Epimetheus (California, Stanford University Press, 1998) 106. Mitchell, WJ. City of bits : space, place, and the infobahn (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1998) p101 107. Colomina, Beatriz. Public Space? Lost And Found (MIT Press, London, 2017) p254.

108. ANI. Social Network addiction taking over lives Australian Study (dnaindia.com/technology-report-socialnetwork-addiction-taking-over-lives-australian-study-1837573, 2013) 109. Colomina, Beatriz. Public Space? Lost And Found (MIT Press, London, 2017) p254-255.

110. Mitchell, WJ. City of bits : space, place, and the infobahn (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1998) p101 112. McLuhan, Marshall. The world is a global village cbc-tv (https://theconversation.com/surprise-digital-spaceisnt-replacing-public-space-and-might-even-help-make-it-better-87173) 113. Ibid.

116. Colomina, Beatriz. Public Space? Lost And Found (MIT Press, London, 2017) p255.

118. Ibid. p256 121. Mitchell, WJ. City of bits : space, place, and the infobahn (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1998) p103 122. Ibid.

123. NowGP.com 126. Mitchell, WJ. City of bits : space, place, and the infobahn (MIT Press, Cambridge, 1998) p48 132. Colomina, Beatriz. Public Space? Lost And Found (MIT Press, London, 2017) p260.