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. ...Evolo Housing Competition Results
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007
Evolo’s 07-housing-competition results are out. Check them out. They’re all way too small to read the text, but the images look great.
Dubai Inc.
Friday, February 9th, 2007
Money. Fear. Disney. Debt bondage. Mega architecture.
Mike Davis writes on Fear and Money in Dubai at the New Left Review.
Interactive Graffiti on Architecture
Monday, August 21st, 2006
Interactive Architecture (video) is an illustration of the concept that digital projections can interact with the surfaces upon which they are projected.
Flood Maps
Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
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
Invisible Dynamics : Cabspotting
Monday, April 10th, 2006
Stamen Design's Invisible Dynamics takes GPS tracking information from San Francisco Yellow Cabs to generate video of a city flowing, pulsing, living, growing. [video1] [video2] via Boing Boing
Mobile Living
Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
Presented in the spectacular 18,000 sf Skylight Studios Gallery, Soho, NYC, Mobile Living will exhibit the unparalleled advancements in our society that have manifested our modern nomadic lifestyle. . . Mixing design and technology this will be a groundbreaking, curated presentation, running concurrently with the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), and DesignDowntown in New York City, May 2006. Mobile Homes, Mobile Phones, Mobile computing, Automobiles, Motor homes, indoor and outdoor furniture will all be topics in the show.
A Force More Powerful
Saturday, March 11th, 2006
A Force More Powerful is the first and only game to teach the waging of conflict using nonviolent methods. Destined for use by activists and leaders of nonviolent resistance and opposition movements, the game will also educate the media and general public on the potential of nonviolent action and serve as a simulation tool for academic studies of nonviolent resistance.
via Z Partners
Maximum Suburbia
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Low income homes in Ixtapaluca, Mexico City (10,000 units. It’s real.)
more Mexico City aerial views from the helicopter pilot/photographer C.O. Ruiz
via BLDGBLOG
Aerial Los Angeles
Thursday, January 12th, 2006
Watch LA, the organism, breath and pulsate. [video]
(a snippet from the Grasscollective)
via BLDGBLOG
