UNREAL is a course at the Royal Institute of Technology running between September 8th until October 24th 2008
When faced with the discussion about “real” and “virtual” architecture one encounters many different traces. One is leading towards a way of addressing architecture as a result from various “forces” or “powers”, where the constructed space is understood as something that manifests the predominating one. As a consequence, architects and theorists have been using the idea of the virtual and the network as a tool to resist powers or at least make the powers in question visible; to the beholder, but also to the producing architects. Terms like “open source” and “share-ware”, borrowed from computer science, has been popular in the field of visual arts as well as in architecture.
