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    Escape From the Future: Architecture, Language, and the Computational Turn

    Figure 4.pngThe 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 ...

    Process/Drawing

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    Nothing Is Random: Automason Ver 2.0

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    Dazzle Topologies

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    Transmitting Iconography

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    Tectonics, Economics and the Reconfiguration of Practice: The Case for Process Change by Digital Means

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    Bodies Unfolding

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    Cultural Concerns in Computational Architecture

    perkins 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 ...

    Genetic Architecture

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    Automason Version 1.0

    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

    genomic1.gifGenomic 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. ...
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Animated Open Street Map

OpenStreetMap has an animated time-lapse map of eCourier (a courier service in London) movement over a three day period. Watch London pulsate. [video]

via Cartography

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2 Responses to “Animated Open Street Map”

    a gravatar Thrashing Stinks » Blog Archive » Visualization: Time-lapse couriers in the UK

    [...] Future Feeder points to OpenStreetmap where a 3 day time-lapse video of courier data in London is available. I really like this sort of thing. [...]

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