Dustin Altschul

“Professional life requires that one live with the tension of using technology and remembering to distrust it.”
― Sherry Turkle, Simulation and Its Discontents

“In a laughing mirror-image of the seriousness with which the rest of the world is obsessed with Progress, Coney Island attacks the problem of Pleasure, often with the same technological means.”
― Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

“We are leaving behind a universe of forms determined by exactly repeatable, visible imprints and moving toward a new visual environment dominated by exactly transmissible but invisible algorithms.”
― Mario Carpo, The Alphabet and the Algorithm

“Rather than be characterized as a technocratic burden to be satisfied, energy can, and should, help architecture finally and powerfully fulfill the terms of its ambitions: form, space, technology, program, and urbanism.”
― Kiel Moe, Convergence: An Architectural Agenda for Energy