–Jason Hopkins develops a compelling digital art work entitled Abhominal that illustrates a beautiful hybridization of geometrical normative structures with a tumorous organic flesh. His “bodies” are as much striking to me that it obviously evokes the hyperactive use of uncontrolled topological surfaces in current architecture. Jason Hopkins proposes a much more interesting vision of […]

Rona Pondick 1. Animal and Architecture mouse The question of how architecture becomes animal is entwined, especially today, with how animality (and in fact, animals) become architectural. What Agamben calls the anthropological machine constructs a contingent boundary between human-animal and non-human animal, and a definition of politics in the imagee of what sits on the […]

–Nano Supermarket -Next Nature’s Nano Supermarket OPENS! (Next Nature)

How changes occur and the orders in which they emerge are placed by both time and events. In biological terms the phenomena was first explained by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace who in 1858 jointly unveiled their theories On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties; and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species […]

Future of Technology Friday, September 24, 2010 1:30 PM–6:00 PM Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:00 AM–4:00 PM Location Rackham Auditorium 915 East Washington Street Ann Arbor, MI 48109 The Future of Technology Conference at University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, September 24-25, features critics, practitioners and academics presenting how technology empowers, […]

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 […]

Convoluted Flesh The convoluted (i.e. overlapped, intertwined and blurred) nature of contemporary architectural design, as we understand it, goes beyond the functions of opulence and intricacy, of technique and simulation, of module and optimisation. It invokes something ranking above notions of beauty, style, and elegance – it evokes the sublime, the blissful and the mysterious. […]

At TED2010, mathematics legend Benoit Mandelbrot develops a theme he first discussed at TED in 1984 — the extreme complexity of roughness, and the way that fractal math can find order within patterns that seem unknowably complicated. Benoit Mandelbrot – Fractal Art – Ted Link Ron Eglash – African Fractals – Ted Link