Manuel DeLanda, Virtual Environments as Intuition Synthesisers (1992) MANUEL DE LANDAVirtual environments as intuition synthesisers Emergent Properties One of the most exciting new concepts to enter the realm of science in recent decades is that of 'emergent properties'. To be sure, the idea-that the property of a whole is not reducible to its individual components-has been around for a long time. But its unfortunate association with scientificalfy disreputable schools of thought such as vitalism has not encouraged scientists and philosophers to consider it seriously.
Today, the idea that a whole may be more than the sum of its parts is becoming commonplace in physics, biology, economics and other disciplines. Although there are many other examples, these two suffice to illustrate the basic principle: complex global behaviour can spontaneously emerge out of the interactions of a population of simple elements. In the words of Chris Langton, one of the leading figures of Artificial Life: Artificial Life In James Gleick's words, Feigenbaum: Populations Gama Theory.
Nouvelle page 2. Genetically Siamese and consubstantial, it appears as a dysfunctional reflection in the mirror, organizing the way "we and the others" frame conflicts arising precisely from the state of the mirror, to quote Lacan[11] / Where the perception of the unicity of our corporality, through the mirror, is constructed in coincidence with the defragmentation of the perception of our environment. The process of "reductionism" to One Body is the symmetrical reflection of the One World, where all the complexities, the schizoid and paranoid assemblages, early childhood’s sweet disruption of consistency, are trapped in a univocal representation, framed and simplified.
And consequently all the alien fragments that cannot fit in this perfect and comfortable representation of "INselves and OUTselves" are considered fatally flawed by absurdity, weirdness and oddity in order to preserve the illusion of this symmetrically operative but vain unicity. Footnotes [11]Le stade du miroir. . [19]Olzweg / 2006. What is generative design ? « Generative Design. I have been asking this question my self, for quite some time. My attempt to find out has led me through hundreds of published papers, books, blogs and endless discussion that opened even more questions. What is generative Design? I have come across many attempts of defining what it is.
Many of them are absurd – especially those published in journals that seek to define generative design within tiny niches of reserch interests. Outside their confines, I have found some good ones that capture the spirit of generative design – I list them here : Some good definitions of Generative Design “Generative design is not about designing the building – Its’ about designing the system that builds a building.” - Lars Hesellgren “Generative design systems are aimed at creating new design processes that produce spatially novel yet efficient and buildable designs through exploitation of current computing and manufacturing capabilities” - Kristina Shea Natures answer Nature is a master practitioner of design.
dAP. Post-Parametric Impressions english version.pdf (application/pdf Object) THIS CANNOT PASS. BEIJING — Chinese authorities on Sunday detained Ai Weiwei, one of the country’s most high-profile artists and a stubborn government critic, as he tried to board a plane for Hong Kong, his friends and associates said. Mr. Ai’s wife, nephew and a number of his employees were also taken into custody during a raid on his studio on the outskirts of the capital. Rights advocates say the detentions are an ominous sign that the Communist Party’s six-week crackdown on rights lawyers, bloggers and dissidents is spreading to the upper reaches of Chinese society. Mr. Ai, 53, the son of a one of the country’s most beloved poets, is an internationally renowned artist, a documentary filmmaker and an architect who helped design the Olympic Bird’s Nest stadium in Beijing.
Jennifer Ng, an assistant who accompanied Mr. A man who answered the phone at the Beijing Public Security Bureau on Sunday declined to answer questions about Mr. Shortly after Mr. By targeting Mr. Mr. Until now, Mr. Protocell Architecture - grayanat's posterous. Researcher Profile: Nigel Goldenfeld. Nigel Goldenfeld is a professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign who has worked on a wide-variety of fascinating topics. We have encountered his research time and time again, more than any other scientist. From his bio: “Nigel’s research explores how patterns evolve in time; examples include the growth of snowflakes, the microstructures of materials, the flow of fluids, the dynamics of geological formations, and even the spatial structure of ecosystems.
Nigel’s interests in emergent and collective phenomena extend from condensed matter physics, where he has contributed to the modern understanding of high temperature superconductors, to biology, where his current work focuses on evolution and microbial ecology.” Adaptive meshing for phase-field model Much of his work focuses on the dynamics of solidification and crystal growth. Simulation of sinter terrace formation Emergence of foams from the breakdown of the phase field crystal model. Biomimetics. One cloudless midsummer day in February, Andrew Parker, an evolutionary biologist, knelt in the baking red sand of the Australian outback just south of Alice Springs and eased the right hind leg of a thorny devil into a dish of water.
The maneuver was not as risky as it sounds: Though covered with sharp spines, the lizard stood only about an inch high at the shoulder, and it looked up at Parker apprehensively, like a baby dinosaur that had lost its mother. It seemed too cute for its harsh surroundings, home to an alarmingly high percentage of the world's most venomous snakes, including the inland taipan, which can kill a hundred people with an ounce of its venom, and the desert death adder, whose name pretty well says it all. Fierce too is the landscape itself, where the wind hissing through the mulga trees feels like a blow dryer on max, and the sun seems three times its size in temperate climes. “Ah-ha!” Parker exclaimed, like Sherlock Holmes alighting upon a clue. Blog Archive » Francois Roche’s Sci-Arc Takedown. Pulsation in Architecture | Digital Pulse: The Digital Nouveau, Revisiting the Vector and the Nouveau Materiality | South Florida Design Book. » Greg Lynn: Curve Your Enthusiasm on 032c.com.
Most of us have forgotten that the desire for sleek, bare, planar architectural surfaces is simply the effect of an 80-year-old trend. Before modern architects liberated the plastic powers of glass and concrete, buildings were festooned and filigreed with elaborate details and laborious materials. Modernism’s rationality, though, leaves little room for enjoying architecture’s more sensual charms. While many architects of his generation are busy finding new ways to defibrillate an aging aesthetic, GREG LYNN, 44, has been patiently replacing modernism’s stylistic stranglehold with a curvy digitalism. Not necessarily 032c’s usual aesthetic territory. Model of lantern, BloomHouse, Location undisclosed; 2004–(left) and Model of voids, Slavin House, Venice, CA; 2005–(right) In person, he’s towering. Already synonymous with the proliferation of blobby, biomorphic shapes in contemporary architecture, Lynn’s practice has been much more than an elaborate exercise in exotic form-making. Right.
Graham Wakefield. Thesis/Dissertation Wakefield, G. Real-Time Meta-Programming for Open-Ended Computational Arts. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of California Santa Barbara, 2012. Wakefield, G. Vessel: A Platform for Computer Music Composition, Interleaving Sample-Accurate Synthesis and Control. M.S. Journal Roberts, C., Wakefield, G., and Wright, M.
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, Matthew Wright, Graham Wakefield, Charlie Roberts, Dennis Adderton, Behzad Sajadi, Tobias Höllerer, Aditi Majumder. Wakefield, G., Höllerer, T., Kuchera-Morin, J., Roberts, C., Wright, M. Wakefield, G. and Ji, H. Thompson, J., Kuchera-Morin, J., Novak, M., Overholt, D., Putnam, L., Wakefield, G., Smith, W. Smith, W., Wakefield, G.: Computational Audiovisual Composition using Lua. Amatriain, X., Castellanos, J., Höllerer, T., Kuchera-Morin, J., Pope, S., Wakefield, G. and Wolcott, W.: Experiencing Audio and Music in a Fully Immersive Environment. Zwick, R., Sklar, J. Book chapter Wakefield, G. Ji, H and Wakefield, G. Wakefield, G. Conference. Evan Douglis studio. Tobebuff : WalterBenjamin_Das_Kunstwerk_im_Zeitalter_seiner_technischen_Reproduzierbarkeit. KFM- Technologies.
Nexus 2004. Ornament and Structure - New Biological Paradigm. Abstract. The ubiquitous computing era has pushed the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) industry towards new frontiers of digitally enabled practice. Are these the frontiers originally identified by the pioneers in the field? Architectural design has progressively shifted from two-dimensional paper based pencil sketched models to digital models drawn in various Computer-Aided Design (CAD) tools. The recent adoption of parametric modeling tools from the aerospace industry has been driven by the need for tools that can assist in rapid flexible modeling. The adaptation of parametric modeling has reformed both pedagogy and practice of architectural design. The question remains if parametric design has answered all the requirements specified by Steven Anson Coons in his 1963 proposal for a Computer-Aided Design (CAD) system. Publications . Veröffentlichungen : Heike Matcha . Günter Barczik.
Experimental Design-Build eCAADe 2009 . Heike Matcha Parametric-Typological Tool eCAADe 2009 . Heike Matcha Algebraic Geometry eCAADe 2009 . Günter Barczik Parametric Design eCAADe 2007 . Algorithmic Design Techniques eCAADe 2007 . "Produktive Prozesse" in "Modulare Strukturen", A.Agkathidis "Chefs, Artists, Researchers" in Generalist 2/2010 Research "Acting without a Plan" in Generalist 1/2009 Got a Plan Forschungsprojekt Massenvielfalt . Expo 15.2 Messestand Möbiusband . Expo 15.1 Messestand Wellpappwelle . Expo 15 Messestände . Forschungsprojekt Add-On . Vorfertigung + Parametrik . Workshop Pantelleria . Workshop Salt 06 . Workshop Salt 07 . Design Project Camp for Kids . Cottbus Library Inauguration . Workshop Zukunftswerkstatt Wohnen . Tutorial – Obleo Design Media. Underpinnings A new approach to modeling instruction at PolyPlane The best way to learn 3D modeling?
Forget about the software. For the moment anyway. That’s part of the philosophy at PolyPlane, a new instructional site that emphasizes the broader concepts of 3D graphics before delving into the dashboard of a particular CAD application. “People just starting out in 3D modeling are forced to wrap their brains around a lot of unfamiliar concepts all at the same time,” says Gabriel Mathews, principal of Portland’s Con Cor Design Group and author of the video series.
The first series of free videos at PolyPlane.com – called “pre-flight” – gives the overall lay of the land (or grid, in this case) for students before they even get into the cockpit of a modeling application. “We try to build an overall framework of modeling for the newcomer. Sketch To Model video course from PolyPlane.com. Modeling school bite by bite Test Flights Learning by doing eventually is part of the ride, too. Arguing for Elegance. Arguing for Elegance Patrik Schumacher, London 2006, Published in: Elegance, AD (Architectural Design), January/February 2007 Editor: Helen Castle, Guest-edited by Ali Rahim & Hina Jamelle Elegance speaks for itself. In everyday life elegance suggests sophistication, taste and refinement. It is an unquestioned value of immediate appeal and in no need for argument. However, as a new explicit watch-word claiming to guide the next stage of avant-garde architecture it constitutes a provocation. It is precisely this mainstream appeal of elegance that runs counter to the very self-conception of any avant-gardism.
In fact the pursuit of elegance is most probably incompatible with radical newness. On the count of radicalism the pursuit of strangeness and the construction of “abstract machines”(1) is more productive than anything one might expect from the pursuit of elegance. Elegance is a mainstream value with a wide-spread application in many arenas. Theory of Elegance. The Living City | URBAGRAM. This is a transcript of a talk delivered at Cognitive Cities, a conference on the future of cities held in Berlin on 26th Feb 2011. Hello. I’m going to show you some research projects by myself and other colleagues at CASA, which concern what I call the living city. What do I mean by ‘the living city’? Invisible Cities · Bending Bookshelf (2010) [ source ] Cities are made up of physical networks of infrastructure, from buildings to roads and subway lines.
But they are also made up of flows of people, vehicles, information and goods. It’s these cities of flow and networks of interaction which I call the living city. Desire Path · @iirraa (2010) [ source ] The living city is unplanned. I’m going to talk about the living city today in terms of interactions, boundaries, flows and evolution. Interactions In this first project I’ve looked at the social life of cities. Social New York · Depiction of New York City in terms of social interaction density · Anil Bawa-Cavia (2010) [ large ] Here’s Paris.
Microplexes | URBAGRAM. This is a transcript of a talk delivered at the Bartlett school of Architecture on March 24th 2010, as part of a series of seminars held by the Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London. This is my first academic seminar, in which I lay out some of my research aims and their conceptual underpinnnings. You can see the original presentation in the format it was delivered here. Hello. My talk is called microplexes. It’s a presentation on how very small complex systems can show us how to grow large urban systems. Today I want to talk about scale. Fig. 1 Scales of knowledge (a very rough sketch from my notebook). This is one of the first sketches I put in my notebook when I started my PhD 6 months ago. I want to show you how network topologies give us a means of analysing and comparing spatial systems at disparate scales, how network science gives us a vocabulary for talking about any spatial system and what the limitations of that vocabulary might be.
Microchips. The Induction Cities. SUBWAY STATION IIDABASHI MAKOTO SEI WATANABE. Choosing Among Values: What counts as a "Good" Thing ? Research on Induction Cities is an ongoing project involving participants from various universities and architectural firms; its membership changes from time to time. Unlike the formal research program of a university curriculum, this project is the work of a virtual, flexible research organ.
Ten years ago (note: 1990's), at the outset, we tried first of all to determine whether such an undertaking was even feasible. Eventually, we began to think it could indeed work, and we set out to design a city in its entirety. At the time we started, no one else seemed to be doing this kind of research. For example, what makes up a "good" street ? The basic structure of Induction Cities can be outlined as follows (variations on this exist, as well): 1. In other words, create several programs to output potential plans (3) and create a program to evaluate the output (2). Computer-Aided Architectural Design vs. Architect-Aided Computing Design. Books you should look at « arc5177. Archive » Rhino Grasshopper VS Generative Components.
Designplaygrounds. Emergent Tom Wiscombe, LLC 涌现组. Building Without Walls. # MANIFESTO /// Formlessfinder. In Si(gh)te » Enikő Márton: The Evolution of Design Techniques. Designflux < article : A mystery of the Cube. 2D Placement of Streamlines. Digital morphogenesis. Performance-based Design: Current Practices and Research Issues | Bezalel Papers on Architecture. Digital architecture as a challenge for design pedagogy: theory, knowledge, models and medium | Bezalel Papers on Architecture. Patricia Brizzio: Design To Fabrication: When 3D Becomes Our Daily Reality.
Readings in Digital Design.