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. ...links for 2006-05-27
Saturday, May 27th, 2006-
The nest architecture of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius
Prefab China
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006
I'm off to China to teach in the Prefab China program for the next 3 weeks until June 16th. In the meantime please enjoy our archives and links.
links for 2006-05-18
Thursday, May 18th, 2006We Feel Fine
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
We Feel Fine by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kanvar is a visualization of how the internet community feels. The program scours across blogs for phrases containing "I feel" and parses them into a field for analysis from many different angles. Brilliant!
links for 2006-05-12
Friday, May 12th, 2006-
Busker Du (dial-up) is a recording service for buskers through the telephone (preferably public payphones hidden in subway stations).
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itp art
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itp google earth interactive video
Wal-Mart Growth
Monday, May 8th, 2006 
Thomas Holmes has assembled an animation of Wal-Mart Store Openings spreading across the US from 1962 to 2004.
via theboxtank
Micro.Spheres
Monday, May 8th, 2006 
Micro.Spheres by Julius Popp takes place in a room, containing around 16 autonomously acting robots, which visitors are allowed to enter and experience. The robots act according to a dogmatic command that drives them to perpetually place themselves in the spatial centre of their immediate environment.
links for 2006-05-04
Thursday, May 4th, 2006-
The shape and text was created by power-washing filthy sidewalks using a large stencil form.
links for 2006-05-03
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2006The Shape of Song
Monday, May 1st, 2006
The Shape of Song is an attempt to answer this seemingly paradoxical question. The custom software in this work draws musical patterns in the form of translucent arches, allowing viewers to see–literally–the shape of any composition available on the Web. The resulting images reflect the full range of musical forms, from the deep structure of Bach to the crystalline beauty of Philip Glass.
