6 advices from starchitects to the young architects. Everyone that works in the field of architecture knows that it takes quite a high level of commitment and desire to become an architect. Nobody becomes an architect because they think it sounds cool or because they simply like to draw. There is a lot more to it and I think there has to be some cautions for you to even think you will experience any measurable success, yet nevertheless, some architects are successful and well known because of their designs. We thought it might be helpful if we can get some advice and guidance from them to young architects, so we began to dig the web searching for some valuable points of advices from senior and starchitects to the young and aspiring ones, check out some of them below.
Do you have any advice for the young? Peter Eisenman: “Stay away from architecture !” Frank Gehry: “Be yourself !”” Bjarke Ingels: “Think, analyze and Build your conceptual framework”“Just like in science, architecture is a hypothetical deductive experimentation. Stealing Fire Book. Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers: Joseph Choma: 9781780674131: Amazon.com: Books. Paradigms in Computing: Making, Machines, and Models for Design Agency in Architecture: David Jason Gerber, Mariana Ibanez: 9781938740091: Amazon.com: Books.
Tolerance and customisation: A question of value. Text: Michael Parsons The idea of tolerance in architecture has become a popular point of discussion due to the recent mainstreaming of digital fabrication. The improvements in digital fabrication methods are allowing for two major advancements: firstly, the idea of reducing the tolerance required in construction to a minimum (and ultimately zero) and secondly, mass customisation as a physical reality.
Digital fabrication has made the broad-brushstroke approach to fabrication tolerance obsolete and now allows for unique elements and tolerance specific to each element. The accuracy that digital fabrication affords the designer, allows for the creation of more complex forms with greater ease and control. So far, this has had great and far reaching implications for design. These processes have narrowed the gap between digital representation and the physical outcome. The word ‘tolerance’ is commonly venerated as an ever-present guide to realise a design. Let’s look at a few examples. Folding Techniques. AΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗ /ARCHITECTURE. The Funambulist | Bodies, Design & Politics. Someone Has Built It Before. Conway's Game of Life. "Conway game" redirects here. For Conway's surreal number game theory, see surreal number.
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.[1] The "game" is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves or, for advanced players, by creating patterns with particular properties. Rules[edit] The universe of the Game of Life is an infinite two-dimensional orthogonal grid of square cells, each of which is in one of two possible states, alive or dead. The initial pattern constitutes the seed of the system. Origins[edit] The game made Conway instantly famous, but it also opened up a whole new field of mathematical research, the field of cellular automata ... Conway chose his rules carefully, after considerable experimentation, to meet these criteria: City - Design - Innovation » Material(ism) for Architects: a Conversation with Manuel DeLanda.
Interview by Corrado Curti version pdf If architecture – as Lebbeus Woods says – is about building ideas, then we may easily consider the philosopher, artist and writer Manuel DeLanda one of the most influential and active archistars there is. Although architecture is not the direct object of DeLanda’s speculations, his ideas and writings provide architectural thinking with valuable insight on the methods and models of scientific discourse, which is critical to develop a coherent experimental practice.
Manuel DeLanda lecturing CC: What role do you believe materialist philosophy can have in relation to contemporary scientific research and, in general, to research as the activity of exploring original paths of thought in any given field of knowledge? To a materialist a typology can become an obstacle to think about the processes that produced the items it classifies and it can hide the sources of variation that give the world its expressivity. ———————————————————————————–¹ M. ²M. Greg Lynn: Blob Tectonics. In his essay, Blob Tectonics, or Why Tectonics is Square and Topology is Groovy, from his book, Folds, Bodies and Blobs, Greg Lynn is most interested in advancing the blob as a viable architectonic entity.
To Lynn, blobs are “simultaneously alien and detached from anything else” while also possessing the ability to melt into their larger context. They are a singular ideal entity that involves itself with a “particular, local identity.” He follows with are look at the blob in a few different ways: first, from the view of science fiction, second, in the “philosophical definition of viscous composite entities,” and finally, in the context of modern construction methods. While examining the blob with regards to its behavior and structure, the science-fiction blob deserves interest mostly because it acts as a semi-solid, semi-liquid being or “quasi-solid.” The blob moves and absorbs other objects with liquid-like abilities as well as taking its form from its environment and movement.
# GUEST WRITERS ESSAYS 25 /// Fibrous Assemblages and Behavioral Composites by Roland Snooks. Prairie House – Fibrous strand chunk / Kokkugia | Roland Snooks with Texas A&M Today is Roland Snooks‘ turn to be a guest writer for the Funambulist as he generously accepted to be part of this series. His essay Fibrous Assemblages and Behavioral Composites articulates the digital research that he has been developing with his office Kokkugia and in the various schools where he taught with an investigation about the technological means to actually fabricate the output of this same research. Athough I remain critical of how the vanguard algorithmic architecture has been translated into a disarticulated mainstream in many schools of the world because of some opportunist followers, I consider that Roland’s discourse can trigger the strong interest of many of the Funambulist’s readers for several reasons.
The Funambulist Papers 25 /// Fibrous Assemblages and Behavioral Composites by Roland Snooks Fibrous assemblages are structurally non-linear. Micro-scale timber fibres Like this: Like Loading... Boids (Flocks, Herds, and Schools: a Distributed Behavioral Model) In 1986 I made a computer model of coordinated animal motion such as bird flocks and fish schools. It was based on three dimensional computational geometry of the sort normally used in computer animation or computer aided design. I called the generic simulated flocking creatures boids. The basic flocking model consists of three simple steering behaviors which describe how an individual boid maneuvers based on the positions and velocities its nearby flockmates: Each boid has direct access to the whole scene's geometric description, but flocking requires that it reacts only to flockmates within a certain small neighborhood around itself.
A boid's neighborhood A slightly more elaborate behavioral model was used in the early experiments. In cooperation with many coworkers at the Symbolics Graphics Division and Whitney / Demos Productions, we made an animated short featuring the boids model called Stanley and Stella in: Breaking the Ice. Online resources related to boids.