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    Escape From the Future: Architecture, Language, and the Computational Turn

    Figure 4.pngThe creators of this online journal and forum controversially argue that computation will engender the final stage of development in the relationship between architecture and computers by ...

    Process/Drawing

    ReasThumb.jpgWriting software is at the core of Casey Reas’s artistic practice. The digital is his medium of choice rather than a means of manipulation. He reflects on ...

    Metaphysics of Genetic Architecture and Computation

    Thumb copy.jpgWith the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, the great spectre that once haunted Europe and the rest of the ...

    Nothing Is Random: Automason Ver 2.0

    Figure 1.jpg While computers have dramatically changed the way architects design, construction in the US and around the world is still dependent on ...

    Dazzle Topologies

    EVAN copy.jpg One of the great lessons of the 20th Century that our particular generation of architects has inherited is our appreciation of the infra-thin scale: the primal ...

    Transmitting Iconography

    GRAND2cropb copy.jpg Contemporary telecommunication and computer technologies have fundamentally changed the relationship between sign and space, iconography and matter. While Venturi’s model for the decorated shed grew out ...

    Tectonics, Economics and the Reconfiguration of Practice: The Case for Process Change by Digital Means

    sheldon-thumb.jpgThe current programming culture in architecture could all too easily be written off as a youthful, geeky obsession with the algorithmic and the parametric among nascent practitioners, who ...

    Bodies Unfolding

    Bill and Lila Thumb copy.jpgAfter seeing Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion World Map, a map projected on a flattened isohedron, we began working on the idea of using computer ...

    Cultural Concerns in Computational Architecture

    perkins G. Holmes Perkins, 1904-2004 In September of 2004 I attended two events that reflect on each other. One was the Non-Standard Praxis conference held at MIT. The ...

    Genetic Architecture

    Genetic Architecture With the dissolution of the last utopian project of Man in the name of Communism, thegreat specter that once haunted Europe and the rest of the world has all but ...

    Automason Version 1.0

    Contemporary architects are judged as much by their buildings as they are by the sophistication of the techniques used in design and construction. A certain fascination with technology is natural ...

    Genomic Architecture

    genomic1.gifGenomic architecture is based on the manipulation of the architectural genome. Like its biological counterpart, this genome is universal and encompasses all architecture — past, present and future. ...
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FF Hiatus

February 7th, 2008 | cw

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Sorry I haven’t posted here in a really long time. It’ll be a while before I get back to FF. I’ve been in graduate school (ITP at NYU) and I’ll be graduating in May 2009. If you’re interested in following my work there, you can see what I’m up to at cwwang.com.

Tracking Transience

September 15th, 2007 | cw

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Where is Hasan Elahi right now? After an interogation stint with the FBI, mistaken as an enemy combatant, artist and self declared troublemaker, Hassan, now reveals every detail about his life an FBI agent would want to know. So. . . no need to every summon Hassan ever again. Simply go to trackingtransience.net and locate him (via self imposed gps tracker), see what he’s eaten, where he’s been, what urinals he’s used, etc.

via conflux

iPhone Finally Free

September 11th, 2007 | cw

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iphone.unlock.no has the simplest, most straight forward instructions. It simply works (took about 15mins). iPhone, welcome to T-Mobile. more at hackint0sh

Brian Dettmer

September 9th, 2007 | cw

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Some amazing book autopsies by Brian Dettmer


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Josh Spear

Interactive 360º Light Field Display

August 31st, 2007 | cw

USC Institute for Creative Technologies presents (at SIGGRAPH 2007), a new low-cost autostereoscopic 3D display.

via core77 + swissmiss

Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion 2007

August 27th, 2007 | cw

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0lll’s exhaustive photo diary of the Serpentine Gallery Summer Pavilion 2007 by Olafur Eliasson and Kjetil Thorsen

Evolo Housing Competition Results

August 23rd, 2007 | cw

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Evolo’s 07-housing-competition results are out. Check them out. They’re all way too small to read the text, but the images look great.

Papervision3D

June 28th, 2007 | cw

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Papervision3D makes your flashy website look so 1999.

more: carlosulloa.com, papervision3d blog

Hans Rosling

June 26th, 2007 | cw

Hans Rosling will teach you a thing or two. Just watch and learn.
via TED

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Internet Radio

June 26th, 2007 | cw

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I know I do. I know many of you do. So please, let’s Savenetradio.org.