The creators of this online journal and forum controversially argue that computation will engender the final stage of development in the relationship between architecture and computers by ...
Writing software is at the core of Casey Reas’s artistic practice. The digital is his medium of choice rather than a means of manipulation. He reflects on ...
With the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, the great spectre that once haunted Europe and the rest of the ...
While computers have dramatically changed the way architects design, construction in the US and around the world is still dependent on ...
One of the great lessons of the 20th Century that our particular generation of architects has inherited is our appreciation of the infra-thin scale: the primal ...
Contemporary telecommunication and computer technologies have fundamentally changed the relationship between sign and space, iconography and matter. While Venturi’s model for the decorated shed grew out ...
The current programming culture in architecture could all too easily be written off as a youthful, geeky obsession with the algorithmic and the parametric among nascent practitioners, who ...
After seeing Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World Map, a map projected on a flattened isohedron, we began working on the idea of using computer ...
G. Holmes Perkins, 1904-2004 In September of 2004 I attended two events that reflect on each other. One was the Non-Standard Praxis conference held at MIT. The ...
With the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, thegreat specter that once haunted Europe and the rest of the world has all but ...
Contemporary architects are judged as much by their buildings as they are by the sophistication of the techniques used in design and construction. A certain fascination with technology is natural ...
Genomic architecture is based on the manipulation of the architectural genome. Like its biological counterpart, this genome is universal and encompasses all architecture — past, present and future. ...Nike Claims Town Square
Karlzplatz, Vienna’s historic main square will soon be renamed to Nikeplatz! Well, not really. In September 2003, the entire city of Vienna was pranked into thinking Nike was appropriating the city square. 0100101110101101.org’s elaborate hoax was distributed through thousands of brochures, an official website @ nikeground.com, and finally a 13-ton metal and glass infobox inviting the public to find out more about Nike’s plans to brand the square with a giant swoosh sculpture.
Scary. After all we have Disney’s own branded town, Celebration. It’s arguable whether 0100101110101101.org’s public performance art registered in the flow of our already all encompassing brand-scape, but their seamless integration surely sparked concern over privatization of public spaces. Considering people go as far as tattooing swooshes to their bodies, I can imagine there were people that were ecstatic to see the Nike-ification of a public space. (I just saw a guy on the bus the other day with FILA shave into the back of his head!)
full text of Naomi Klein’s No Logo online | more info at nologo.org
