Course

AR-517: Machines of fortune, architectures of risk

Summary

This seminar aims to investigate the prehistory of the building type of our century: the data center. Through weekly readings and discussions, we will investigate how apparently immaterial regimes of information turned nature into data through a series of built artifacts since the 19th century.

Lectures

Instructors (2)

Javier Carlos Nueno Guitart

Pedro Correa Fernandez

Pedro Correa Fernández is a Doctoral Candidate in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Before joining GSAPP, he was an adjunct professor at the Architecture School of Universidad Católica de Chile where he taught seminars and lectures on architecture history and related epistemological, aesthetic, and political issues. His current work examines the mediations between technical knowledge, artisanal crafts, and global industrial capitalism in early nineteenth-century Latin America.Pedro holds an architecture degre

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https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/machines-of-fortune-architectures-of-risk-AR-517

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Summary

Lectures

Instructors (2)

Javier Carlos Nueno Guitart

Pedro Correa Fernandez

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/machines-of-fortune-architectures-of-risk-AR-517

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/AR-517

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