MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY™ | ART + ARCHITECTURE ^ COMPUTATION [ Python / Rhinocommon SDK ] Christian Norberg-Schulz Biography[edit] Thorvald Christian Norberg-Schulz was born in Oslo, Norway. He was educated at the Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule in Zurich in 1949 with subsequent studies in Rome. He studied at Harvard University under a Fulbright scholarship. He received his Doctor of Technology in architecture from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in 1964 and became a professor at Yale University, the following year. Norberg-Schulz was a Professor and later Dean at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design from 1966 to 1992. Personal life[edit] In 1955, he married Anna Maria de Dominicisog. In popular culture[edit] Mark Z. Books in English by Norberg-Schulz[edit] Primary source[edit] An Eye for Place: Christian Norberg-Schulz: Architect, Historian and Editor (Gro Lauvland, author. References[edit] External links[edit] Norberg-Schulz’s House
Morphogenetic Creations by Andy Lomas Created by a mathematician, digital artist and Emmy award winning supervisor of computer generated effects – Andy Lomas, Morphogenetic Creations is a collection of works that explore the nature of complex forms that can be produced by digital simulation of growth systems. These pieces start with a simple initial form which is incrementally developed over time by adding iterative layers of complexity to the structure. The aim is to create structures emergently: exploring generic similarities between many different forms in nature rather than recreating any particular organism. In the process he is exploring universal archetypal forms that can come from growth processes rather than top-down externally engineered design. Programmed using C++ with CUDA, the series use a system of growth by deposition: small particles of matter are repeatedly deposited onto a growing structure to build incrementally over time. Andy Lomas | lacda /via Golan and Pete Hawkes
Konrad Wachsmann Konrad Wachsmann (May 16, 1901 in Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany – November 25, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) was a German modernist architect. He is notable for his contribution to the mass production of building components. Originally apprenticed as a cabinetmaker, Wachsmann studied at the arts-and-crafts schools of Berlin and Dresden and at the Berlin Academy of Arts (under the Expressionist architect Hans Poelzig). During the late 1920s he was chief architect for a manufacturer of timber buildings. He designed a summer house for Albert Einstein, one of his lifelong friends, in Caputh, Brandenburg. In 1938 he emigrated to Paris and in 1941 to the United States, where he began a collaboration with Walter Gropius and developed the "Packaged House System", a design for a house which could be constructed in less than nine hours. He is buried in his native Frankfurt an der Oder. References[edit] External links[edit]
Computing Kaizen Studio Toys Studio Toys Computing Kaizen Columbia University GSAPP Advanced Studio VI Interested in Processing and architecture?Join the Proxy mailing list to get infrequent announcements. The "Computing Kaizen" studio explored evolutionary architectural structures and their potential to anticipate change and internalize complex relationships. De-stressed BodiesProject by Biayna Bogosian "The project is a study of degradation of uniform networks overtime.The study focuses on the pinned down edges which take on the role of the most resistance, the torn edges and the in-between connecting members that oscillate between the reconfiguration of the forces within the whole network system." Growth/Death BodiesProject by Maider Llaguno "Life and death, nature and the artificial are an integral part of a conceptual ecology that contains and determines architecture as a cultural practice. Entagled BodiesProject by Maurizio Bianchi Informational BodiesProject by Esther Cheung Inverted BodiesProject by Paige Mader
John Rawls 1. Life and Work Rawls was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Rawls's adult life was a scholarly one: its major events occurred within his writings. Rawls's most discussed work is his theory of a just liberal society, called justice as fairness. 2. 2.1 Four Roles of Political Philosophy Rawls sees political philosophy as fulfilling at least four roles in a society's public life. A second role of political philosophy is to help citizens to orient themselves within their own social world. A third role is to probe the limits of practicable political possibility. A fourth role of political philosophy is reconciliation: “to calm our frustration and rage against our society and its history by showing us the way in which its institutions… are rational, and developed over time as they did to attain their present, rational form” (JF, 3). 2.2 The Sequence of Theories In contrast to the utilitarian, for Rawls political philosophy is not simply applied moral philosophy. 3.
Swarm Intelligence Fall 2009 [with Roland Snooks-Kokkugia] - for further information see: www.kokkugia.com/wiki "This seminar examines the role of agency within generative design processes. The course engages algorithmic techniques in the development of a computational methodology grounded in swarm intelligence. While discussing the political and social role of agency, the workshop will focus on an abstract design methodology, recasting simple decision making ability into agents capable of self-organizing into an emergent intelligence. The semester focused around two areas of research, initially developing simulations of vector based swarm systems and then using these as the basis for developing an architectural design methodology which operates within a topological substrate. Computational design is shifting away from the reliance on heavy platforms such as Maya's MEL scripting language into lightweight object oriented programming environments, enabling the massive iteration required for emergent processes.
Douglas Davies Douglas Davies at St Chad's College, Durham Douglas James Davies (born 1947) is Professor in the Study of Religion in the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Durham. He is an authority in the history, theology and sociology of death. His fields of expertise also include anthropology, the study of religion, the rituals and beliefs surrounding funerary rites and cremation around the globe, and Mormonism. Born in Wales, he read two Bachelor of Arts degrees at St John's College, University of Durham, before doing his PhD at the University of Nottingham. His current projects include writings on 'The Encyclopedia of Cremation', 'The Clergy and British Society: 1940-2000', 'A Brief History of Death', 'Inner-speech and prayer' and 'Ritual purity'. His list of books include: He has also published a large number of articles on death, and contemporary Christianity. He is a member of the Senior Common Room of St Chad's College Durham.
open architecture open design- Collections at OpenProcessing share design methods, inspire and collaborate, develop custom tools leading towards full scale manifestations of open source culture! o_a_o_d is an initiative using already functioning social network services to link methods, tools and techniques with their effects and back. this way we are building a networked body of multiple feedback loops between makers, users and spectators while blurring these categories. we are focused on custom tools creation, evolution and evaluation since these can be shared with broader communities and -if proven useful-assist bottom-up design and building processes. feel free to submit anything useful for designers, architects, city planners or urban thinkers. from very pragmatic to entirely imaginary. if you are using these apps in any context [architecture, design etc] please show it! link it with your work [pics, video, blogpost] to give feedback to the authors and fellow users/spectators. current nodes:
Thomas Metzinger Thomas Metzinger (2011) Thomas Metzinger (born 12 March 1958) is a German philosopher. As of 2011[update] he holds the position of director of the theoretical philosophy group at the department of philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and on the advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation. From 2008 to 2009 he served as a Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin. He has been active since the early 1990s in the promotion of consciousness studies as an academic endeavour. As a co-founder, he has been particularly active in the organization of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC), and sat on the board of directors of that organisation from 1995 to 2008. Metzinger's work addresses some of the fundamental issues in neurobiology, consciousness, and the relationship between mind and body. Metzinger's interests include: Metzinger supervises The Neuroethics Web Portal.
2014 Conference | Call ACADIA 2014 DESIGN AGENCY LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA October 23-25, 2014 University of Southern California www.acadia.org/acadia2014 WORKSHOP 1 - 'SWARM INTELLIGENCE: ALGORITHMIC DESIGN STRATEGIES' by Roland Snooks 3 DAY WORKSHOP. DATES: 20-22nd OCT MAX NUMBER OF SEATS: 8 AVAILABLE SEATS: 8 The workshop will explore architectural design processes instrumentalizing multi-agent algorithmic techniques. The workshop will introduce the kAgent library of code, which has been developed through Kokkugia's design research over the last 12 years. WORKSHOP 2 - DESIGN AGENCY by Marc Fornes 3 DAY WORKSHOP. Description: Content to be announced. 3 DAY WORKSHOP. Description: This workshop will focus on the fundamentals of parametric design within the conceptual design environment Vasari using Dynamo – a visual programming application by Autodesk. Prerequisites: While there are no prerequisites, some exposure to Dynamo is suggested. Prerequisites:
Big data Details Published: 07 December 2013 How can firms take the first steps towards applying big data methodologies in their AECO practices? If CO2 was the byproduct of the industrial revolution then data is surely the byproduct of the digital revolution. It is almost impossible to comprehend how much data we are producing. Figure 1 dashboard prototype allows clients to quickly compare design options in terms of environmental performance, leasable area, and program breakdown To put that in perspective, the hard-drive in your computer probably accommodates one terabyte of data, which means we fill an equivalent of 2.3 million of those hard drives with new data every single day. Perhaps more astonishing than the amount of data is the rate at which our data production is increasing. Our data production has been steadily eclipsing itself and with the rate of data production increasing exponentially, in the not too distant future it will be eclipsed again. This might not sound like architecture.
Geomerative Tutorial. Part 1. | Free Art Bureau A beginners tutorial to using the Geomerative Library developed by Ricard Marxer. Part 1. Original tutorial written by Mark Webster & published 18/09/2011. This is an introductory step by step tutorial to using the Geomerative Library. >>> You can download all the necessary files for this tutorial here. We will be doing a second part of tutorials for the Geomerative library very soon. Working with the Geomerative Library. 1). a_Geo_Font_01 Open up this first sketch which shows the most basic structure for displaying text with Geomerative. In Processing, we use the PFont class to work with fonts. Once we have all these in place we can simply call our text using draw(). NB. RFont is a reduced class variable for creating, holding and drawing text from TrueType Font files. 2). b_Geo_Font_02 In this sketch we introduce three important classes that will allow us to access data from our shape or font. Note that there are three major steps in setting up this code. 3). c_Geo_Font_02b_Vertex
Big data and open data: what's what and why does it matter? | Joel Gurin | Public Leaders Network | Guardian Professional Big data and the new phenomenon open data are closely related but they're not the same. Open data brings a perspective that can make big data more useful, more democratic, and less threatening. While big data is defined by size, open data is defined by its use. Big data is the term used to describe very large, complex, rapidly-changing datasets. But those judgments are subjective and dependent on technology: today's big data may not seem so big in a few years when data analysis and computing technology improve. Open data is accessible public data that people, companies, and organisations can use to launch new ventures, analyse patterns and trends, make data-driven decisions, and solve complex problems. This Venn diagram maps the relationship between big data and open data, and how they relate to the broad concept of open government. Open data doesn't have to be big data to matter: Modest amounts of data, as shown in section four, can have a big impact when it is made public.