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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

    ReasThumb.jpgWriting 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

    Thumb copy.jpgWith 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

    Figure 1.jpg While computers have dramatically changed the way architects design, construction in the US and around the world is still dependent on ...

    Dazzle Topologies

    EVAN copy.jpg 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

    GRAND2cropb copy.jpg 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

    sheldon-thumb.jpgThe 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

    Bill and Lila Thumb copy.jpgAfter 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

    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

    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

    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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links for 2006-04-30

Sunday, April 30th, 2006
  • A computer program is wandering aimless around the pages of the internet, looking at a virtual environment of the passages of text it comes across, and searching for links so it can wander to another place. The text it finds is scanned for words relating
    (tags: art computing)

links for 2006-04-27

Thursday, April 27th, 2006

Earth Observatory

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

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Nasa's Earth Observatory website hosts various global data visualizations that can be customized into downloadable animations.

via  NOTCOT.:

links for 2006-04-24

Monday, April 24th, 2006

links for 2006-04-23

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006
  • LogMeIn Backup is an easy and automatic way to protect your data and memories. You remain in total control of your data, because your critical files are securely backed up to any other PC that you own or use.
    (tags: software beta)

PixelSkin02

Sunday, April 23rd, 2006

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 PixelSkin02 is a responsive architectural surface made of shape memory alloy (SMA) to actuate each of the four panels that make a 'pixel'.

links for 2006-04-21

Friday, April 21st, 2006
  • 18.03 Differential Equations, Spring 2004 | Video Lectures
  • the octomatics project is about a new number system
    which has a lot of advantages over our old decimal system.
    (tags: math)
  • “In Mr. Moschen’s hands, juggling becomes a balletic art… (he) elevates a minor theatrical art to visionary heights.” - New York Times
    (tags: art video)

ParaCloud : Parametric Point Cloud Modeling

Saturday, April 15th, 2006

paracloud.jpg ParaCloud's Smart Cloud of Points (SmCP) provides a new parametric modeling environment base on generative point clouds. Each coordinate has an added 4th value "i" for a network of relationships throughout the pointcloud.

Richard Sweeney

Friday, April 14th, 2006

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Richard Sweeney's creations. more at [flickr]
via origami tesselations

Monome

Wednesday, April 12th, 2006

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Monome is Brian Crabtree’s simple, highly adaptable, interface for things you haven’t even thought of yet. [video]

via Pixelsumo