Category Archives: parametric design
Morphogenetic Metaphors in Architecture – The Quixotic Contributions of Conrad Waddington
For historians and theorists interested in the intersection of biology and architecture, the work of the British developmental embryologist Conrad Waddington is the physical equivalent of a black hole; important, yet allusive – better known through its affects, than from … Continue reading
The Crisis of Architecture and the New Imaginary
Architecture is in crisis, but this is nothing new; architects and architectural historians and theoreticians have been proclaiming the crisis of architecture now for over a century. Essays, books, courses and projects have all focused, in one way or another, … Continue reading
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
