November 2014 – midterm crits at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
Grammar code computation
Lecture at “1996 ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programs, Systems, Languages and Applications (OOPSLA)” Within the last decades architecture has become increasingly subjected to computation supported by digital means. The ‘object d’architecture’ has been replaced with the ‘object d’information’. In 1917 D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson stated in his treatise that living things and physical phenomena take their form as a result of …
Bio digital architecture & genetics
Keywords. Organism, evolution, biosemiotic, protocols, computational biology vs. biological computing, bioinformatics, paraarchitecture, Gordon Pask, Heinz von Foerster Abstract: Adopting genetic and biological principles to the act of designing through computational means and digital tools is one of the most challenging tasks architects are pursuing in the beginning of the 21st century. Thinking, working and decisionmaking processes in our discipline of …
LCW jury at AA summer school – Berlin take away
Jury members and teachers: Berlin is a transformed city. For several years in a row, AA Berlin Laboratory has been documenting the changing landscape of Berlin and its relation to the experiment, indentifying Berlin’s special status as a city of extraordinary conditions, a heterotopia’ or counter-site. In 2014, AA Berlin Laboratory will move on. We will say ‘good bye’ to …