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Development of the Cybernetic Era: Technologic Humanism

How do you build a Learning Machine? In 1968, the idea of computer aided participatory design was a  foreign concept for architects. The typical architectural office was comprised of people sitting and standing composing construction and design documents in front of large desks from morning till night. An Architectural theorists, Nicholas Negroponte, at this time was theorizing about [...]

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Invisible Architecture

Designing for what we can not see 1) Domestic Astronomy by Phillippe Rahm               2)  Weather Project by Ólafur Elíasson Form Follows Function, function follows form, and according to Rahm form and function follow climate. Rahm suggests a change in the architects discipline from relying on the aesthetic and visibly [...]

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