My article “Governing Collaboration: Data and Work Relationships in UK Software for Building Design, 1970-80” was published as part of the special issue “Automation by Design: Politics, Culture, and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn” of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, edited by Colette Perold, Jeffrey Yost, and Gerardo Con Díaz. Based on my dissertation research, the article explores historically how representations of architectural projects as data did not only modeled buildings, but frameworks of governance of design work. By linking data structures to structures of control, the article contributes critical insights into how architectural software for collaboration makes design work discrete and governable.
Find the full article here, and the editors’ introduction to the special issue here.
Eliza Pertigkiozoglou 