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Function Follows Form: Rethinking the ‘Function’ of ‘Form’ in Architecture
“[Life] is a property of form, not matter, a result of the organization of matter rather than something that inheres in the matter itself. - Christopher Langton, Artificial Life, p. 41 “There is… a well-defined difference between the magical and … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, Buckminster Fuller, cybernetics, data, infrastructure, technology
Tagged biology, Cedric Price, complexity, emergence, form, function
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Provocation 1: Data and Design
… it appears from Trobriand magic that these people continually exhibit a habit of thinking that to act as if a thing were so will make it so. In this sense, we may describe them as semi-Pavolovians who have decided … Continue reading
Posted in cybernetics, data, mapping, parametric design
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