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. ...The Virtual Typewriter Museum
Saturday, April 7th, 2007
The Hansen Writing Ball | The Virtual Typewriter Museum
The Adaptation of my Generation
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006
The Adaptation of my Generation, by Jonathan Keller is a daily portrait project started in 1998. Check out his links page to many other ‘passage of time’ and obsessive photo projects.
Morphing Mississippi
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Each plate from Harold N. Fisk’s 1944 geological survey of the Mississippi is stunning on its own. Strung together, it becomes a beautiful creature twitching along the terrain.
via Pruned
History of Contraception
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
A 650+ collection of historical contraceptives donated by Percy Skuy, the former president of Ortho-Macneill, is on view at the Dittrick Medical History Center at the Case Wester Reserve University. Percy Skuy’s collecting began in 1965 and encompassed all manner of contraceptive devices, from a broad variety of cultures and time periods, and eventually developed into a “History of Contraception Museum”.
via Medgadget | boingboing
Pleistocene Rewilding : Wild Animals May Roam Again
Saturday, August 20th, 2005
If Cornell University researchers and their colleagues have their way, cheetahs, lions, elephants, camels and other large wild animals may soon roam parts of North America. The plan calls for the establishment of large ecological history parks in the Great Plains and the Southwest to have elephants, cheetahs, lions, and other large mammals imported from Africa roaming freely. [article]
via Biology News Net
Timescope : ART+COM
Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
ART+COM’s Timescope, re presents the past city-scapes of Berlin through a digitally augmented telescope. The “timescope” can be used for a wide range of purposes: it can be set up for use with tourist sites such as the Reichstag, the Brandenburg Gate or the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church for example, giving visitors the chance to get a closer view of how these locations looked in the past. The “timescope” can also be used for large-scale building projects. In such cases it can be used not only to show how a building project has progressed, but also to show how a building will look in the future. Additionally, it can be used at geological interesting sites, enabling viewers to perceive natural history visually.
via wmmna
Acoustic Radar from the Past
Wednesday, June 1st, 2005
Douglas Self’s Acoustic Radar page from his collection of retro tech showcases some interesting contraptions from World War I and II which were designed to passively detect and amplify the sounds of distant aircrafts. Check out the monowheel page too.
