Getting to grips.

As you might expect, Interactive Architecture dot Org is at www.interactivearchitecture.org. It's one of those blogs which is difficult to distinguish from a standard website. The clue is the persistent use in the text of the first person singular. The 'I' in question is Ruairi Glynn, a graduate of Plymouth University's MediaLab Arts who works at the Bartlett school of architecture. His aim, once you have got through the verbal convolutions at the beginning, is about the possibilities involved in merging digital virtuality with materiality--to use the latter word in a sense unfamiliar to many architecture dominees. At least I think that's what the site is about. It is one of those ambitions which addles the brains of grant providers and enables bright people to get on with playing around with stuff. Not that there is any evidence that Glynn is working the academic system thus. His general manifesto cleverly takes the form of an interview with him--by the HMC MediaLab Organisation, which is to be found at www. HMCMedialab.org. Like all good blogs, you search and leave Glynn's site with a very satisfying sense of incompleteness. It is partly to do with the fact that the range of subjects is so broad; you want to have soaked up at least one before you go. It is also to do with the wonderful images and the comfortably long list of hyperlinks and previous 'issues'--which go back to April last year but still involve a huge amount of viewing. Ominously, Glynn declares an interest in transience. Hope it's only in transient architecture.