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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
Posted in architecture, biology, Buckminster Fuller, cybernetics, ecological design, ecology, environmental design, environmentalism, Geodesics, infrastructure, modernism, nanotechnology, organicism, technology, Uncategorized
Tagged architecture, biology, Buckminster Fuller, christopher langton, cybernetics, cyborg, donna haraway, ecology, environmentalism, john von neumann, macy conferences, nanotechnology, natural organisms, technology, theory of automata, universal turing machine
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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
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Tagged architecture, biology, Colomina, Eisenman, Gehry, Greg Lynn, parametric, technology, Tschumi, Wigley
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The Original Sputnik Shuffle – Reflections on the Apollo Spacesuit
I recently found the following clip on YouTube: While this short video should be appreciated for both its humor and its strangeness, there is much more content behind it than appears at first perusal. It seems to date from … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, architecture, Buzz Aldrin, design, Space, Spacesuits, technology
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Provocation 3: The Human Servomechanism
For the last several months, I have been researching the field of cybernetics in preparation for a thesis that I will be preparing throughout the course of the next academic year. At the current time, this research is admittedly broad, … Continue reading
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Tagged Computer Human Interaction, cybernetics, David Mindell, technology
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Sputnik Shuffle 