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. ...
Photosynth from Microsoft Live Labs is a 3-D image reconstructor that rebuilds entire environments based on hundreds of photos taken from different angles. The result is a web based photo browser that stitches photos into a seamless panorama in a true 3d environment. Think web based QTVR stitcher on steroids.
Hey…Into generative art and graphical programming environments? Checkout vvvv, it's like Processing and MAX/MSP had a kid.
N (as in Ninja) from Metanet Software is the best (flash) game ever made…the simplicity of design and gameplay bubbles up into a fabulously dynamic experience…seriously, check it out. Plus the website has a bunch of great tutorials on some pretty advanced collision detection techniques.
from the website:
N has been described as reminiscent of lode runner — you're a little dude running around in a puzzle-y world inhabited by enemies.
But in N, there's a twist: the ninja is driven not only by a thirst for gold, but also by a physics simulation.
Death, which happens often, is quite animated.
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Tesla Motors has just unveiled the Tesla Roadster, a 0-to-60 in 4 about seconds, electric car. No, it's not a dead end wish-it-would-be-real prototype. The car is set to ship to your door late spring/early summer of 2007.
Inner-City Youth, London is a narrated photo essay by Simon Wheatly. It attempts to capture the lives of Londons under-privalaged youth and the music culture (grime) that is developing out of their real-world experiences and the influence of mainstream American hip-Hop.
While you're there, be sure to check out Magnum Photos - In Motion, with many other similar presentations covering subjects pertinent to todays and tommorrows world.
Magnum Photos is a photographic co-operative of great diversity and distinction owned by its photographer-members. With powerful individual vision, Magnum photographers chronicle the world and interpret its peoples, events, issues and personalities.
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Techniques and Technologies in Morphogenetic Design (Architectural Design) by Unknown
Atlas of Novel Tectonics by Jesse Reiser
On Growth and Form: The Complete Revised Edition by D\’Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Programming Cultures: Architecture, Art and Science in the Age of Software Development (Architectura by Mike Silver (Editor)
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