Human's Scribbles: Zenghelis notes. Last Friday night, Elia Zenghelis gave a lecture at EPFL's Laboratoire Bâle (laba), a studio focuses on urban and complex architectural design led by Harry Gugger. Titled "Athens: Labor, City, Architecture. Towards a common architectural language," the lecture was primarily about a studio Zenghelis taught at the Berlage Institute in the last academic year. It was very proper old school and intellectual - no sexy renderings or bold manifestos. But it was actually quite refreshing to see a knowledgeable scholar's approach to urbanism. Zenghelis started off by reviewing several keywords/themes of the studio:Formal.
Generic. Now I realized all the emphasis on history and politics was trying to understand the issues. Prior Knowledge. Jeremy Roschelle University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth This article summarizes research on the roles of prior knowledge in learning. Educators often focus on the ideas that they want their audience to have. But research has shown that a learner's prior knowledge often confounds an educator's best efforts to deliver ideas accurately. A large body of findings shows that learning proceeds primarily from prior knowledge, and only secondarily from the presented materials.
Prior knowledge can be at odds with the presented material, and consequently, learners will distort presented material. Consider a hypothetical book on wool production in Australia. Alternatively, consider a hypothetical exhibit on fish schooling. Then again, consider a hypothetical lecture on jazz. To help people make the most of a new experience, educators need to understand how prior knowledge affects learning. Prior knowledge also forces a theoretical shift to viewing learning as "conceptual change. " Grand Reductions: 10 Diagrams That Changed City Planning.
In 1902, Ebenezer Howard, an unassuming stenographer and amateur inventor, published one of the most influential visions in the history of city planning, called Garden Cities of To-morrow. In it, Howard created a series of diagrams that helped to establish the orthodoxy of 20th-century city planning. The crisis behind what Howard called the “Garden City idea” — the pollution and overcrowding of the industrial city — is encapsulated in one diagram’s title: “A Group of Smokeless, Slumless Cities.” Howard proposed decentralizing industrial cities by constructing a regionally coordinated series of smaller Garden Cities in the countryside.
Linked by railroads and canals and separated by a permanent greenbelt, the Garden Cities would offer the best of both town and country life to their 32,000 residents, including employment in factories and workshops, affordable rents and abundant open space. . [2] The Towers in the Park From Le Corbusier’s “The Radiant City” (1933). [3] The Rural Grid esthetic. RAMSES simulation of disk turbulences. High-resolution RAMSES simulation of the formation of a galaxy disk 700-processor simulation performed by F. Bournaud at CEA/CCRT on Titane AMR Level 14 projected in a 4096x4096x328 grid high-resolution 4096x4096 JPEG images using various color palettes Visualisation of the baryon gas in a RAMSES simulation of disk turbulences 64-processor simulation performed by L.Delaye at CEA/CCRT 1) High-resolution images of the central region, output 735, AMR Level 11 (projection in a 2048x2048x408 grid) 4096x2304 images (16/9 ratio) : 4096x4096 images : 2) Global view, output 735, AMR Level 10 (projection in a 1024x1024x1024 grid) density viewed by ray-casting : density slice : 3) Global view, output 735, AMR Level 9 (projection in a 512x512x512 grid) velocity streamlines seeded on a 3D grid : velocity streamlines seeded on a plane : velocity streamlines seeded on a plane + image of the density on a slice : velocity streamlines seeded interactively + image of the density : velocity norm :
IRFU, Research Institute of Fundamental laws of the Universe.