Cyberfort and Something to read for Thursday Afternoon

Cybercamp students, get ready create your CyberFort! You can find all the assignment handouts for Bill Willoughby here:

http://arch.latech.edu/willoughby/Cybercamp2010/index.html

The Cyberfort is worth 100 points in declining order less 10 points. Any models submitted late to Bill Willoughby will not be judged.

Your assigned computers should have a computer application called Google SketchUp 7 free version (http://sketchup.google.com/)

In class, we will use this SketchUp file as a basis for the design and modeling of your team's CyberFort at " Willoughby's 2010 Cybercamp Website! -- No frills . . . just old school HTML."

For Bill Willoughby's presentation tomorrow (Thursday @ 1:45PM):

As preparation for this presentation, please download and read this short essay (in Adobe Acrobat format) from William J. Mitchell's book e-topia, "Prologue: Urban Requiem" for tomorrow: and consider these these three questions: What "died" and therefore requires a requiem? What features of the "deceased" are these three mourners eulogizing? And last, will cities become outmoded as cyberspace expands and evolves?

William (Bill) Mitchell is Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences at MIT and former Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning (MIT). He currently directs the MIT Design Laboratory and is a member of the MIT Media Lab's Smart Cities Research Group.