Ensar Temizel Explores How Architectural Visions Outlive Technological Obsolescence

Our faculty member Ensar Temizel’s newest article, “Can a project survive obsolescence? Lessons from Fun Palace and Kawasaki,” has been published open access in The Journal of Architecture (Volume 30, Issue 4–5). In this study, Temizel offers a comparative reading of Cedric Price and Gordon Pask’s Fun Palace and the lesser-known Kawasaki project to explore how architecture driven by computer technologies can remain relevant even as those technologies become obsolete. The article argues that these visionary projects owe their enduring significance not to cutting-edge hardware, but to a cybernetic model of human–machine interaction that treats buildings and users as parts of a learning system, capable of genuine two-way interaction over time.


Author: Ensar Temizel
Title: “Can a project survive obsolescence? Lessons from Fun Palace and Kawasaki”
Journal: The Journal of Architecture
Publication date: 8 January 2026 (online)
Access: Open access
Link: https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2025.2604568


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