Schumachers’ Parametricism – A new global style for Architecture & Urban Design (2008) is an interesting text covering many of the broader topics of Parametricism. It provides the reader with a brief insight into the world of parametricism, it’s history, and it’s real world feasibility & applications.
Monthly Archives: November 2013
Parametricism as a Relationship Rationality
Posted in Digital Logics - Critical Readings, Ian Harold Mann Tagged Networks, parametric design, Parametricism, Paths, Schumacher, Sheep, Theory Concepts Comments closed
SimDesign 4000
(Emergence, Steven Johnson, 2002) What is emergence? …And what do human cells, ants, computers, and city sidewalks all have in common? For Steven Johnson, the answer is simple, “local information leads to global wisdom.” Johnson describes the growth of the aforementioned subjects as being emergent systems: complex organisms that, regardless of their scale, harness the [...]
Posted in Digital Logics - Critical Readings, Ramin Shambayati Tagged Digital Logics, ramin shambayati Comments closed
DELEUZE AND THE GENESIS OF FORM by Manuel DeLanda
In this text, Manuel DeLanda discusses the “Genesis of form”. The problem for Deleuze is that Western philosophy conception of matter as inert receptacle for forms that come from outside spontaneous self-generation of form does not occur. Speaking about genesis of form, it was generated according to the boundaries and opportunities of the external physical [...]
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Swarm logic
In order to study the behavioural patterns within the city, Steven Johnson applies the theory of swarm logic. Derived from the behavioural patterns in the ant colony, swarm logic can also be applied to the patterns of behaviour within the city. Johson explains this theory of swarm logic through two contrasting scales; the ant colony [...]
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down the multi-scalar rabbit hole
What is the nature of complex systems? How do seemingly desperate parts of an organism constitute a greater whole despite their ignorance of its presence? This condition is observed at the cellular level, at the level of interaction between organisms, and in information systems, though through each successive scale the set of criteria and the [...]
Posted in Digital Logics - Critical Readings, Robert Douglas McKaye Tagged advanced architecture concepts Comments closed