Laboratories teaching. (Research as Speculation) Francois Roche with R&Sie(n) is developing the research 'Uncertainties' since the "i've heard about" experiment, in Paris, in 2005, through 8 courses in Master Class and Cross Studio (U-Penn + Columbia in 2006 / Columbia in 2007 / Angewangde + Columbia in 2008 / USC + Columbia in 2009-10-11 / Upenn + Columbia in 2013).
Francois Roche invited : Stephan Henrich (4 times-Upenn-Angewandte-USC...) and Ezio Blasetti (4 times Gsapp) Algorithmic design. New-territories. French + English Version ‘From Radicalism to Idiotcracy, From Y.F. to P.S.’
At cross-purposes As multipurpose as a Swiss army knife, shunted back and forth every which way between art and architecture, he is at once an alibi, a foil, a spiritual father, a defeated ideologue whose scars are an atonement (the deafness, whether real or feigned – we’ll come back to it later) and rather handy… a paper architect, an ideologue, the kind of brand that keeps on giving, still legitimized by the French establishment, that funny alter cocker Yona Friedman® with the slight Slavic accent that makes you smile, whose foibles everyone forgives, since they’re so charming and “inoffensive.” Yona Friedman® is perfectly adaptable… inflatable balloons to mimic the Spatial City,[1] floating cartons filed with salon-utopian political phraseology, pathetic and pathological.
Has Friedman become, through no fault of his own, an icon for fakers, architects who reek of cheap – and lazy – political aesthetics? The big idea : Springbok & Radish. Why this blog?
After collective decades working as designers and developers in the industries of “things” (dishwashers, web sites, automobiles, software products, medical devices, buildings, and so on), the authors of this blog find themselves with a growing passion for work that more directly impacts the roots of social health and the enabling of systemic transformation, resulting in more social health. We find ourselves making a shift from working mostly with physical and digital materials to work that starts with “social materials.” (Sorry if that term sounds cold and academic. New-Territories. Planetary ONE [Open Network Ecology] FUTURE CITIES LAB - Home. Del Campo Manninger architecture & design. BREAD. LaN / LIVE ARCHITECTURE NETWORK.
MIT Media Lab. KRUYSMAN. Computational Design Italy. Disguincio&Co. ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] Who. Hyperbody. [Ay]Architecture. Biothing. SJET. SJET LLC, started by Skylar Tibbits in 2007, was initiated as platform for experimental computation + design and has grown into a multidisciplinary research based practice.
SJET crosses disciplines from design, fabrication, computer science to robotics... SJET is a direct result of an endless search for more... Skylar Tibbits' research focuses on self-assembly and programmable material technologies for novel manufacturing, products and construction processes. Skylar is currently a Research Scientist in MIT's Department of Architecture, teaching graduate and undergraduate design studios and co-teaching How to Make (Almost) Anything, a seminar at MIT's Media Lab. Skylar was recently awarded a 2013 Architectural League Prize, The Next Idea Award at Ars Electronica 2013, the Visionary Innovation Award at the Manufacturing Leadership Summit, a 2012 TED Senior Fellowship and was named a Revolutionary Mind in SEED Magazine’s 2008 Design Issue. www.sjet.us www.scriptedbypurpose.net.
SJET. Self-Assembly Lab. Supermanoeuvre. SUPERMANOEUVRE is an international award winning architecture and innovation practice.
The firm is led by three partners, Dave Pigram, Iain Maxwell and Chris Duffield and operates globally out of Sydney, Australia. The directors have considerable experience in leading roles on internationally significant projects ranging from cultural and government institutions to stadiums and large-scale urban developments. SUPERMANOEUVRE's projects and research have been exhibited internationally including at New York's Storefront for Art and Architecture, the 2008 and 2010 Beijing Architecture Biennales and the partners lectured on the firms work at such institutions as the Architectural Association in London; Columbia and Princeton Universities.
SUPERMANOEUVRE were one of six practices to represent Australia at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. *In collaboration with Matter Design Studio. ****In collaboration with Ole Egholm Pederson and Niels Martin Larsen. Supermanoeuvre. SUPERMANOEUVRE is an architectural practice that sees computation as a means of opportunistically collaborating with the heterogeneity and flux of social, cultural and ecological substrates.
Employing both genetic and phenotypical strategies of formation in which multiple intelligences and behaviours compete for the gift of instantiation, supermanoeuvre seeks to move beyond the diagram as the dominant of architectural understanding. The resulting complex and adaptive morphologies achieve their definition performatively as the emergent outcome of highly specific architectural concerns embedded within generating rulesets. The practice was co-founded in 2006 by Dave Pigram [New York] and Iain Maxwell [London] as a collaborative studio through which contemporary architectures may be engaged.
This blog is intended as a active repository of knowledge pertaining to contemporary architectural resources, techniques and theory. More information on supermanoeuvre can be found on our website: Architecture. Index. Print. Working Group on Adaptive Systems. TOM WISCOMBE DESIGN - Profile. TOM WISCOMBE DESIGN. Prof. Ludger Hovestadt, Chair for Computer Aided Architectural Design, Departement for Architecture, ETH Zürich.