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November 6, 2011 | jonbailey | 0 Comments

Softspace

Softspace:The stuff between, in & around by Sean Lally + Jessica Young That architecture has often traditionally been preoccupied with the ‘hard’ (structure, forces, geometries of form), letting the ‘soft’ (qualitative environments, mood, atmosphere) become secondary, or residual, is a fairly obvious fact. Looking back, we find endless variations on form defined through structure and […]

November 4, 2011 | jonbailey | 1 Comment

The Journey to Emergence

This is part I of a series of excerpts of an article to be published in the International Journal of Architectural Research entitled The Principles of Emergent Urbanism. Additional parts will be posted on this blog with the editor’s permission until the complete article appears exclusively in the journal’s upcoming issue. Of the different domains […]

November 1, 2011 | jonbailey | 0 Comments

Tom Wiscombe: Composites Lecture

Tom Wiscombe, founder of EMERGENT, a Los Angeles-based firm internationally known for operating at the forefront of digital design, spoke at Texas A&M’s Architecture Lecture Series April 25, 2011. EMERGENT’s work is driven by models of biology and computation, as well as by contemporary design sensibilities. The May 2009 issue of ICON Magazine called Wiscombe […]

October 31, 2011 | jonbailey | 0 Comments

Scaffolding + Aggregations

-Big Bambu, Starn Studio -Designed Particle Aggregations, Achim Menges Studio, Rice University + AA London, 2003-2004 -Achim Menges Studio

October 31, 2011 | jonbailey | 0 Comments

Neri Oxmon: On Designing Form

-Architect Neri Oxman is the founder of MATERIALECOLOGY, an interdisciplinary design initiative expanding the boundaries of computational form-generation and material engineering. Named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” Oxman investigates the material and performance of nature in an effort to define form itself. -Source

October 18, 2011 | jonbailey | 0 Comments

anonymous.a(rchitect) 02

–In addition to entering this years eVolo 2012 Skyscraper competition, Archimorph will be entering into the anonymous.d competition: CHALLENGE anonymous.a – architectural competition anonymous.a architectural competition is aimed at small structures that CAN be built! Every year we are organizing a series of 4 architectural competitions that will conclude in an annual exhibition of all […]

October 15, 2011 | jonbailey | 15 Comments

Rachel Armstrong | Letter to Arup

Mitchell Joachim. TERREFORM1: BlimpBumperBus Response to ‘Under Imagined Future of Transport’ posted by Susan Claris Letter to ARUP, by Rachel Armstrong I don’t agree that the importance of forward-thinking long term planning is over sold! What I do think is over-sold – is the productisation of very specific solutions to challenges that are not well […]

October 13, 2011 | jonbailey | 3 Comments

Morphogenetic Structuralism 2.00

-Python scripted structural system in collaboration with membrane created by Erick Katzenstein. Wrapping the structure is a form-fitting membrane, via a definition in grasshopper utilizing Kangaroo and WeaverBird. Animation of process to follow…

October 13, 2011 | jonbailey | 1 Comment

Morphogenetic Structuralism

-Testing of a particle system written with Python; the particles are reacting to attractors, velocity, cohesion, and gravity within a field aggregating with minimum and maximum ‘strut’ lengths.

October 12, 2011 | jonbailey | 4 Comments

Spotlight: Perry Kulper

Perry Kulper is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 16 years as well as in visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. Subsequent to his studies at California Polytechnic […]

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