For the past few years, I have been applying the analytic thinking of a scientist to find basic laws for architecture and urbanism, following the lead of my friend, the brilliant architectural theorist Christopher Alexander. The results derived so far show that a building, or city, is subject to the same organizational laws as a […]

“Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture”, Speaker: Manuel Delanda, Date: April 9, 2004, Art and Technology Lecture Series Manuel De Landa, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, […]

-In early 2011 Archimorph will be publishing their first book, self-titled; Archimorph Book I: Architecture, Biomimetics, Technology. More information will be available closer to the release date.-JB

“Technology and architecture have become synonymous. Digital media has become paramount in the practice of architecture, specifically within the context of architectural representation. Consequently, how we design, perceive and experience spatial boundaries has altered. Film production, as a time-based medium, grasps the potential to explore new possibilities of architectural representation and practice within a filmic […]

“The sculpture acts in the tradition of the marginalized mid-century American medical doctor Wilhelm Reich who said “all plasmatic matter perceives, with or without sensory nerves. The amoeba has no sensory or motor nerves, and still it perceives…The terror of the total convulsion, of involuntary movement and spontaneous excitation is joined to the splitting up […]

Assuming that there exists at all levels of nature a principle corresponding to the path of most economic action or least resistance (which is only a misguidedly negative expression of the deeper principle that every action is nonetheless accompanied by its own sufficient conditions), the rivulets and modulations of the epigenetic landscape correspond to built-in […]

Minority Report science adviser and inventor John Underkoffler demos g-speak — the real-life version of the film’s eye-popping, tai chi-meets-cyberspace computer interface. Is this how tomorrow’s computers will be controlled? Below are a few passages from Natural-Born Cyborgs, Andy Clark relating to that of the evolution of technology and their influence on human society; …lets […]

-Text from Nikos Salingaros, A Theory of Architecture 7.Circumventing Our Immune System A meme acting as a virus uses packaging or surface configurations. An attractive shell (that appears beneficial to the organism) permits a biological virus to attach to a host and inject its DNA. In the case of an architectural meme, the analogous packaging […]

‘lohas’ ‘Lohas is an acronym for ‘Lifestyle of Health and Sustainability’. It stands for a life style or consumer type that wants to foster health and sustainabilty by consciously buying specific products.’ ‘Sociologist Paul Ray first treated the phenomenon in his book „The Cultural Creatives: How 50 Million Are Changing The World“. Yet the term […]

-article via fractal ontology. Process In Mechanism and Biological Explanation [Maturana 1970], Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela argue that machines and biological forms are very closely related — so closely, in fact, that biologists can reasonably claim living systems are machines. This is not meant merely as a pedagogical metaphor, but rather as a rigorous […]