From science to sociology, the ants colony organization, the human cells communication, the great cities development, Steven Johnson trough these three case studies explores the different interactions typologies from a micro to a macro scale, in order to study the relations between local interaction and global behavior. The author analyze first the ants life, [...]
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From micro to MACRO, a local interactions tale \ EMERGENCE _ STEVEN JOHNSON
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Deleuze and the Genesis of Form ! – de Landa
Manual De Landa discussed the genesis of form according to the philosophical approach of Gilles Deleuze .For Manual De Landa , Deleuze believes that genesis of forms was found according to the boundaries and opportunities of external physical forces .So for Deleuze the problem was that the western philosophy conceptions of matter is wrong in [...]
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Patrick Schumacher – Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Design-2008
In his text, “ Parametricism: A new global style for architecture and urban design”, Patrick Shumacher tries to convince the reader that parametricism is a style, and for this he uses multiple arguments. First, he explains parametricism in a context of a research programme, which automatically justifies and legitimizes the unanswered issues and the unclear [...]
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Emergence “The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software”
Emergence (Steve Johnson) The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software As Steve Johnson says, it’s amazing how ants have been on the planet since the beginning of time due of their complex organization, hence the reason you need to understand their organization and complexity of their systems, Steve Johnson compares metaphorically community ant, [...]
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Parametricism
Parametricism: A new global style for architecture and Urban design Patrik Schumacher defines parametricism as a style for architecture. Style, a word he uses to define it as a movement as opposed to a fashion in this context. It consists of the use of digital tools (rhino, maya, scripting, processing…) and the emergence of a [...]
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