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Computation

The Analytical Engine From “computers� in the Encyclopædia Britannica online: “While working on the Difference Engine, Babbage began to imagine ways to improve it. Chiefly he thought about generalizing its operation so that it could perform ...

Technology

We are today in the midst of a technological upheaval greater then any we have seen in human history, including developments in information, computers, AI, virtual reality, material science, nanotechnology, biotechnology, genetic engineering, brain and ...

Post Human

We need to distinguish between “post humanism� and “post human.� Post humanism refers to a change in culture, along the lines of the change from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, or from the Baroque ...

Quantum Issues in Architecture

Quantum Theory Quantum theory, dealing with the strange behavior of subatomic particles and the role of the observer, came into focus by the late 1920s in the Copenhagen Interpretation. Until recently, it remained in the ...

Information

A few years ago discussions of information theory usually started with Claude Shannon: From Wikipeida: “Claude Elwood Shannon (April 30, 1916 - February 24, 2001) has been called “the father of information theory�…. He innovated the ...

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

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 ...

Process/Drawing

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 ...

Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and Computation

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 ...

Nothing Is Random: Automason Ver 2.0

While computers have dramatically changed the way architects design, construction in the US and around the world is still dependent on ...

Dazzle Topologies

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 ...

Transmitting Iconography

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 ...

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

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 ...

Bodies Unfolding

After seeing Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World Map, a map projected on a flattened isohedron, we began working on the idea of using computer ...

Cultural Concerns in Computational Architecture

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

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 ...

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

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. ...