The transhumanist Culture Natasha Vita-More Cultural movements, from the Graeco-Romans, Romanesque culture, Humanism, the Renaissance, Romanticism, Modernism, and Postmodernisms to transhumanism, carve an eminent mark on history as their trends ripen into social norms or dissolve when newly found social passions come along. Culture and its many movements are forever evolving forward in a perpetual […]

‘In Garden Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (2000), the landscape theorist John Dixon Hunt elucidates three categories of landscape first defined during the Renaissance: ‘first nature’ being wilderness, ‘second nature’ being the cultivated landscape, and ‘third nature’ being the garden, a combination of nature and culture. One might argue that over the course of […]

“Metaxy is Chu’s architectural practice at the cutting-edge of the creation & implementation of new concepts for architecture and design based on the genetic paradigm. The studio deploys computation as a generative engine to arrive at the construction of possible worlds of architecture that are imaginative, surreal & enigmatic. As such, architecture is conceived as […]

d3:dialog>blur 21st century design practice reveals ever-expanding complexities and ambiguities between architecture and the disciplines of art, performance, landscape, urbanism, interiors, and industrial design. With an increased consciousness of the extended ecological interrelationship of humans, cities, and space, renewed interest in the connectedness of people to all aspects of the built environment has emerged. Blurring […]

FUTURISTIC WATER AND THE BIOREEF DIVERSITY THEORY THAMES GATEWAY The Challenge Abstract We are also building an important book for the future image of london, where winners will be featured. The designers in this book will be Re-Evaluated repeatedly over the next decade for Thames gateway project advancements. The bio-mechanical futuristic water competition is the […]

-leonardo solaas; processing driven swarm visualizations.-Site

-Mike + Dough Starn: Starn Studio: Big Bambu: You Cant Stop, You Wont Stop, You Dont Stop. ‘A series about what it is to be alive, grow, and to change….the connective tissue…those interconnections where all the interactions happen and something gets made’

-Click [the image above] to obtain your free digital copy of the Biophilia + Technophilia project manual. More to come on this project as the months rolls on. Click here to purchase.

Many of the aspects Andy Clark brings to the foreground in his book, Natural-Born Cyborgs, are reiterated in this Ted Talk by Amber Case; that we are already cyborgs. The case is put forth that we have actually been “cyborgs” since humans began using tools, as the brain offloads its processes to the ubiquitous use […]

-As the architectural profession, along with other professions, continues to adopt terminologies from biology (in this case evolutionary biology/genetics), the terms (listed below) become important in the creation of architectural design at the level of the digital code. In the time of a biotechnical architecture, where architecture is considered more biological than human-made “machine” (as […]