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. ...Not on vacation, just really really busy
Monday, February 27th, 2006
3D Plasma Display
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, President: Hiroyuki Yoshikawa) and Keio University (President: Yuichiro Anzai), in collaboration with Burton Inc. (CEO: Hideki Kimura), have succeeded in the experimental fabrication of a device displaying “real 3D images” which consist of dot arrays in space where there is nothing but air.
Plants + Self-Recognition
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
New data suggest that molecular communication between the plant sexes–specifically the pollen of males and pistils of females–is more complicated than originally thought. Plants, like animals, avoid inbreeding to maximize genetic diversity and the associated chances for survival. Image: Nicolle Rager Fuller, National Science Foundation
via US NSF
Confederate Motorcycles
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
Confederate Motorcycles | Beautiful.
Alluvial Fan
Sunday, February 19th, 2006
From the USGS Landsat Project: An alluvial fan of the Taklimakan Desert in XinJiang Province, China. [high-res]
via Pruned
Tunecore + your music = lots of bling
Wednesday, February 15th, 2006
Tunecore is a completely new model of music distribution that will take your original music and put them up for sale on iTunes and Rhapsody (physical distribution coming soon). Simple. Cheap. No rights mongering or contracts. Get that bling you wanted.
The Dumpster
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
The Dumpster, another brilliant visualization by Golan Levin showing romantic breakups announced in the blogosphere from 2005. (co-commissioned by Whitney Artport & Tate Online)
In Search of Maxwell’s Demon
Tuesday, February 14th, 2006
Check out this interview with Jon Kher Kaw by POST. [In Search of Maxwell's Demon: Scapes (applet)] Thanks, KT.
Jeff Han : Multi-Touch Interaction
Monday, February 13th, 2006
Multi-Touch Interaction Research [demo video] | pressure-sensitive, high-res, 36″x27″ rear projected
Jeff Han, you rock.
Room temperature tabletop fusion confirmed
Monday, February 13th, 2006
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a tabletop accelerator that produces nuclear fusion at room temperature, providing confirmation of an earlier experiment conducted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), while offering substantial improvements over the original design. [press release]
via Science Blog
