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The harvester building cities

By Gustavo Triana | Published: November 24, 2013

 from “Emergence: The Connected live of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software” by Steven Berlin Johnson. 2001

Chapter Number 2 – Street Level -
Lebbeus Woods | Havana | radically reconstructed| 1994

Lebbeus Woods | Havana | radically reconstructed | 1994 | http://lebbeuswoods.net

Collective intelligence is based on the concept of “swarm logic” where the resolutions and decisions made by individuals are produced from their relationships with others without knowing the outcome or consequences of their actions on a global scale.

Steve Johnson in his book “Emergence” explained through the analysis of an ant colony, the importance of the actions of individuals and their effects at different scales through various examples: he shows how ants seeking the shortest route to stock food, how to prioritise resources to food access taking into account the distance and the easiest access, or how to change their tasks according to the external conditions of their individual activities. Read More »

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Intermediate Architecture

By Gustavo Triana | Published: November 10, 2013

 

Intermediate Architecture

“The Architecture of Dreams”

There are concerns that have increased in recent years and is about how the natural environment is related to the built environment and how it is no longer the sole concern of the architects and the way we, as architects we approach it.

The rapid growth of cities, generated mainly due to population growth and migration of people from rural areas to cities continued proliferation of vertical solutions that solves one of the many problems associated with population density, but not the problems that architects must solve in an urban environment related to the conditions of the inhabitants. The resolution of these problems related to human habitat, which should be solved by the subject matter experts, such as architects, urban designers and planners, no longer seem to matter, as the economic interests of the private sector and the proliferation of technological solutions somehow have addressed the problem, but can not meet the needs and requirements from the intangible conditions and their relationship with the environment inhabited. These intangible conditions are the most important components for the inhabitants of the architectural project. Read More »

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