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Architectural Cyborgs – Nanotechnology and the Potential for Living Architecture
The real destiny of the machine [is] to merge itself with natural organisms. - Jack Burnham, Beyond Modern Sculpture, 1968 Prelude: In 1928, R. Buckminster Fuller presented the design for his Dymaxion House to the American Institute of Architects (AIA) … Continue reading
Buckminster Fuller, Mixed Metaphors and the Radiolarian
With the introduction of “Buckyballs” and “Fullerenes” into the scientific lexicon in 1985, Fuller’s conquest of the molecular milieu seemed complete, and his system of geodesic design gained the full weight of scientific legitimation. This kind of migration, from the … Continue reading
An Entirely Parenthetical Discussion of Place, From No Place in Particular
A Critique of Marc Auge’s Analysis of Place and Non-Place The power of poetry is not that it has the ability to render the true beautiful, but rather that it can seemingly render the beautiful true, even when its object … Continue reading
Quick Note on Provocations
The following provocations are designed to generate discourse around contemporary issues of architectural design and its relationship to emerging, or existing technological paradigms. Each provocation begins with an historical and/or theoretic excursus, followed by a series of questions raised by … Continue reading
Desiderata Archive
While this is the last project being presented here, it was the first fully realized (and ongoing) project I produced in the Department of Media Study. In this way, we come full circle, concluding, as it were, at the beginning. … Continue reading
Buffalo Voids
If the first project addressed issues of spatial displacement, resulting from the quantum experiential quality of contemporary location-based digital media, Buffalo Voids creates moments of temporal displacement in an urban environment. This was done by reinserting the audio environment from … Continue reading
Sputnik Shuffle
If the governing scientific metaphors of the 19th century are those of thermal dynamics and Brownian physics, most aptly captured in the language of Freudian psychoanalysis, with its systems of repression (pressure) and release, then the governing scientific metaphor of … Continue reading
