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Scripted in Beijing
Since 2004 Neal Leach has been curating an Architectural Biennial in Beijing, exposing the country to some of the most innovative and impressive architecture from schools and architects around the world. This year a workshop in Scripting and Parametric processes was held in conjunction with the exhibition, just another one of those good ideas that [...]
Design by CONTEXT
GINA, the new car designed by BMW, features a sleek and highly sophisticated performative skin. Instead of the traditional steel and plastic body shell, it uses a textile fabric stretching over a carbon fiber frame. This unique idea allows the car’s skin to change shape, stretching to match the position and curve of the wire [...]
where is the place of digital paradigm in design?
Designers, architects and most of all educators in all the design-related fields need to make up their mind on what the design finally means. It can mean a highly sophisticated privilege of the elites, available starting from $200 a piece from Vitra online shop. It can use a slightly different tradition of critical art to [...]
The Form of the InFORMation
Information as an Issue in Architecture
An arising discourse dominating contemporary architecture focuses on the effect of information technology on architecture. Every historical epoch has its characteristic architecture and often is named after its particular building style, such as the Gothic and the baroque era. The question of an appropriate architectural language or style has become [...]
With camera, internet and GPS, or should I use it to talk?
It is all about questions, answers, action and reaction?
The launching of the new iPhone has created a revolution to the chosen countries blessed by this new technological creation (Venezuela is part of the second “group” of countries to be included: I am Venezuelan but I am living in Spain, I don’t know in which group am in). [...]
why the term open-source architecture is profoundly wrong
It actually shouldn’t be, yet it’s contemporary usage is slightly misleading. Geraldine Juarez and Adam Bobette use the term open source architecture to describe their “cocoon” while in fact it merely allows for reprogramming.
“Reprogramming” coined (in relation to design) by William J. Mitchel in Me ++ describes the possibility of changing the usage, and perhaps [...]
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