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Kalay, Yehuda E.
February 22nd, 2007 under Faculty

Professor, Architecture Department; Director of the Center for New Media, UC Berkeley

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Yehuda Kalay

Professor Kalay is the editor-in-chief (for Architecture) of Automation in Construction (an international refereed journal published by Elsevier), and a founding member and past president of ACADIA (Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture). Twice he has held the Lady Davis Professorship at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He has authored and/or edited six books, and published 71 refereed articles on various topics related to computer-aided design, including building representation, performance evaluation, multi-disciplinary collaboration, knowledge-based design, and virtual place-making. Professor Kalay teaches courses in computer-aided architectural design, evaluation and prediction in design, design collaboration, multi-user virtual environments, semantically-rich representation of design, the nature of design knowledge, design decision-making, design process management, and research methods in design theory and new media. His current research focuses on web-accessible multi-user virtual environments (MUVE) and multi-disciplinary collaborative design.

 Links:      Home Page | Center for New Media

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Computing and telecommunication have become the new media of architecture. They impact the methods architects use to design buildings, the buildings themselves, and even how they are used. My efforts are directed towards understanding the impacts of New Media on the processes, and the products, and the profession of Architecture, towards educating students to become professionals who can operate in this new environment, and to have some measure of influence on its direction.



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To explain this more precisely, just as Bloom acknowledges in Omens of Millennium that the very prescience of the Gnostic texts would not have allowed them to disappear entirely (and for their persistence, it must be noted, he is joyful), the prescience of Frankenstein similarly renders it a dangerous text to be used and/or abused. Frankenstein’s prescience resides in Mary Shelley’s brilliant dialectic of reality-based faith and scientific dreams. Simultaneously, this dialectic demands attention and theorization and it denies the possibility of polemical resolution. Thus, Shelley astonishingly narrates a meta-prognostication on the formula of science fiction as the imaginative production which can lead to reproductions inside and outside of texts even as she is installing the spark of life into the first of its species. From this critical perspective, even the most conservative efforts to ossify Frankenstein into a technophobic cultural cliché will, like Victor’s pastoral optimism in trying to forget about the creature amidst the sublime Alpine landscape, not succeed in bringing forth the good spirits (whether God or a sacred “Nature”) they summon. Rather, every cautionary invocation of Frankenstein cannot help but give more life, as both Harold Bloom and that rebellious replicant Roy Baty are both fond of saying, to precisely the abhorrent productions and reproductions they desperately wish to kill.
From “Dismembering the Cautionary Cliché: Re-reading the Warnings in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”
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