Essay 1 "The Talk" With Miguel Castaneda.

"Infrastructure works not so much to propose specific buildings
on given sites, but to construct the site itself. Infrastructure prepares
the ground for future building and creates the conditions
for future events. Its primary modes of operation are: the division,
allocation, and construction of surfaces; the provision of services
to support future programs; and the establishment of networks
for movement, communication, and exchange. -Infrastructure's
medium is geography."

What are the limitations of urban infrastructure towards a cities socioeconomic development?

Miguel-  "I think that the urban infrastructure is directly related to a city’s socioeconomic development; therefore, its limitations are only expressed through the rate at which the socioeconomic development is willing to occur".

How do you think the process of projects done in the past differ from today?

The process of the architecture in the past dealt within tighter boundaries of rues about materiality, functionality, form, and scale, while today’s technology allows the architect to bypass, and even rewrite, boundaries that allow for an amorphous development of “process”

"Digital technologies facilitate the seamless combination of
images from different sources. Further, the nature of digital media
itself functions to even out the differences previously emphasized
by collage and montage practices."

What do you think is the disadvantage of digital media in the development of a project?

I don’t think there are disadvantages to digital media in the development of a project. I think that the question of digital versus non-digital stems from the uncertainty of outcome that comes with any new technology; as we learn to adapt our pedagogies, process, and final product to new methods of process, we will be able to accept digital as a fundamental tool for designing architecture that engages issues of tomorrow.

Do you consider the human condition to be the products of an already existing urban infrastructure, or does this infrastructure shift the way society lives?

I think human condition and urban infrastructure function at different paces that become synchronized as time progresses. As shift in human condition cause a shift in urban infrastructure, but it occurs at different levels of intensities.