UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
OPENING: Tuesday, 02/05/10 (concurrent digital exhibition launch on www.tex-fab.net)

While the capacity to move across various 2D and 3D digital design platforms suggests a new type of agility for architects and designers, this capability is still largely in an early state of gestation.  To some extent the role of these emerging methodologies are most profoundly explored at scales and in modalities not directly confronted by full architectural programs or design requirements. Rather, the partial or the abbreviated become micro-excursions into the possibilities of what these tools and technologies might foreshadow. The incomplete, in this regard, provides a critical stage in developing the evolution of digital design. By focusing on more detailed scales of development and fabrication it is possible to test the physicality of this type of architecture in more rigorous terms. To some extent, the process leading to authoring certain qualitative effects becomes the most tangible result of the partial architecture.  Themes of light, surface, materiality, and tactility are all fleshed out to produce a haptic digital architecture.