A Brief History of the Forms and Formats of Architectural Discourse on the Internet

Blog, Microblog, Forum, Thread, and Board.

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https://doi.org/10.30827/sobre.v10i.29437

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format, internet, blog, forum

Abstract

This paper analyzes the origins and inclinations of the formats that, in the early 2000s, fostered the emergence of new forms of architectural discourse on the internet. Firstly, those formats propelled the theoretical work of voices outside academia and printed media, including blogs, microblogs, and forums. Secondly were those formats that became pervasive with the appearance of social media, like threads and boards. In short, this article studies the ways in which these formats informed online architectural discourse, as well as the evolution of their cultural significance, which moved from notions of democracy and participation towards monetization and control

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Author Biography

Lluis Juan Liñán, Universidad de Alcalá

Arquitecto por la ETSA de Valencia, doctor arquitecto por la ETSA de Madrid y parte del estudio de arquitectura rellam. En la actualidad, es profesor asociado en la Universidad de Alcalá y Guest Lecturer en la Umeå University School of Architecture. Ha sido docente en la ETSAM y, entre 2015 y 2017, fue Wortham Fellow en la Rice University School of Architecture. Su trabajo ha sido publicado en revistas como PLOT y JAE, expuesto en dos ediciones de la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia, reconocido con el Bauwelt Preis de 2019, y puede consultarse en rellam.org

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Parte de los contenidos del archivo de Archive of Affinities. Andrew Kovacs, 2015.

Published

2024-01-31

How to Cite

Juan Liñán, L. (2024) “ and Board”., SOBRE, 10, pp. 149–167. doi: 10.30827/sobre.v10i.29437.

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