Science and Architecture

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  Star Tribune 12/3/94 1B Metro/Region

  Sub-Headline:  At the College of St. Catherine,
                 women are not only learning biology,
                 they are learning about themselves.
                 The goal is to keep more women in
                 science; the method is to move away
                 from dry introductory courses and teach
                 science as an exploration of reality.

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  Star Tribune 12/3/94 7A.. National News

  Sub-Headline:  [Fort Hood chosen for high-tech unit]

                 The army selected Fort Hood in Texas
                 for an experimental battle force that
                 will use computers to link soldiers,
                 from platoon leader to the highest
                 commander.  Fort Hood's 2nd Armored
                 Division was selected over the 4th
                 Infantry Division at Fort Carson in
                 Colorado.  As envisioned by Army leaders,
                 21st century soldiers will have helmets
                 with display visors, putting computerized
                 battle or map information gathered via
                 satellite or radio in front of their eyes.
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         (1)  Science as investigation into the real
         (2)  Virtual Reality as a perspective within the Scientific Real

         As the case appears, Architecture, having no relation whatsoever
         to the question of Science as a struggle of the human condition,
         chooses and places its bet on the futures of virtual technology.
         And with faith and fervor similar to the worst of human visions.
         But this time, this vision exists within Science, and then within
         the Virtual Real.  And as a Virtual War may exist as real, then
         it is certain that Virtual Architecture will also exist, that is,
         with Virtual Ideas of What Is real.  This thinking coming from
         deep deep inside the wires and microprocessors, with grand ideas
         of what is true and false in this subset of architecture, which
         lends itself a subset of technology, which lends itself a subset
         of the idea of Science, which is by itself, recognizing everything
         as just another thing, as is archictecture.

         Maybe one can imagine a deity of ideas throwing down to earth the
         idea of virtual thinking, that is, going through the motions of
         thinking, without thinking at all.  This machine is called VT,
         and it falls into the many professions, both science, and those
         who are responsible (only because this is their declaration) to
         the human sense.  These Humanities take VT as their ideas find
         themselves as paradox to the real, with inabilitys to discuss in
         their languages, what is.  These VT Humanities continue their
         history under this Virtual Thinking, continuing the same and not
         looking back with humility and recognizing what they have yet to
         learn.  Instead, as is the case of this conditioned paradox of
         what is, they glorify the Virtual to take the place of the real.
         That is, the real condition, the real question, the real idea.
         The human question in VT, that is Virtual Thinking, exists in
         data space, coordinated as a blip on the 21st century soldiers
         screen, informed by a global satellite computer mathematizing.
         Science.  Science and Archicture.  The landscape (including the
         humanity living with it) has changed.  Need some perspective,
         else, well, else we will exist without an ability to question
         what is called this Virtual Real.  Only to exist inside of it.