The architecture of architecture introduces a discussion of the common ground between agent-based behavior through mechanisms of programming and coding cultures, the issue of form as a verb and not a noun as well as a strong bias to the concepts of fractals and Riemannian Manifolds. A theory that relates to a multi-ordered cybernetic model drawing from Gregory Bateson’s thoughts …
DESIGN FOR BIODIVERSITY, CORNELL
CONFERENCE ‘DESIGN FOR BIODIVERSITY: ARCHITECTURAL RESPONSES TO URBAN ECOLOGY’ These questions offer fertile ground for experimentation in urban ecological thinking and practice, which seeks to extend access to a variety of species and systems, lending flexibility to function, and enabling more effective control of energy, material, and capital flows. This year’s Strauch symposium will address these questions by focusing on …
Codes in the clouds IV – Atrophic re-topography
TOPIC CITC IV looking at the architecture of masquerade, of the ornate veil; the architecture of reproduction and the [t]issue of Atrophic [RE]Topography. The Term ‘atrophic’ mainly is used in medicine and biology, however the material built fabric as well as the understanding of it is subject to atrophy over the centuries. We will cross over the boundary of first …
PATTERNS – COMPUTATIONAL AND MATERIAL INTELLIGENCE
In the living world, pattern formation seems both to constrain adaptive change and to offer new adaptive opportunities . . . The technological and aesthetic possibilities of spontaneous pattern formation, for example in material sciences, architecture and the production of structurally and dynamically complex chemical systems, is only just beginning to be explored. Philip Ball, ‘Pattern Formation in Nature’, p. …
CITC IV EXHIBITS AT ARCHITECTURE – EXPERIENCE IT
28th September 2012, 7pm The AIA Pittsburgh invites Codes in the Clouds IV to exhibit work in progress as part of Architecture: experience it at the Cultural Trust Gallery Crawl in Pittsburgh. This semester Codes in the Clouds was dealing with Atrophic Retopography – a new architecture for the masquerade of Venice. We exhibited work in progress within processing. Discussions …