The new technologies of the digital world caused changes in architecture and urbanism. New materials, new construction techniques, and new ways of manufacturing and building have changed how we design and think about construction. Besides, these technologies reveal possibilities of interaction between society and architecture, transforming the understanding of architecture and its purpose.
The German artist duo Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta from Studio Drift recently presented an intervention in European historic buildings using drones with lights to complete unfinished or destroyed buildings. The idea was to relate the new technologies to these buildings’ old constructive techniques. The result is images that use architecture to mark the new and the old, showing both what once was and what could be in the future, which, based on the most recent debates, seems to point to digital technologies.
