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• Evolution V Architecture 9/25 update

  Note: I’m using the term “code” for current lack of better term- I’m not limiting the architectural system to code scripting yet. I’m using “code” to refer to the developmental rules in the system, like genetic code to an organism. I may refer to a conceptual connection between biological and architectural as an “analogy” or […]

• Economy of Knowledge: Means of Production

  My focus so far has been on the ideas of how enclosures of different scales came into existence. From the earliest moments in life, enclosure became a main focus. The first self replicators adapted to cell membranes because some self replicators produced toxic oxygen that killed any replicator that couldn’t protect itself. Likewise, “Sparta didn’t […]

• Orbital Urbanism

  Final Project Ideas Video:  http://youtu.be/1XlOjcO7QOc Currently there are security devices (that look similar to metal detectors) that blow puffs of air onto a person in order to knock off small amounts of dust, then vacuum the dust that was knocked off and run a chemical trace to see if it contains explosive or narcotic chemical […]

• God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates man. Man destroys God. Man creates dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth. Jurrasic Park The Things, The Island, Code 46 all touched on the idea of free will in different forms.  In every sense we are confronted with the idea of the individual and his […]

• The Evolution of Designs 0-2

  Diagrams: evolution of: specific buildings, typologies, specific architects’ work, evolutionary arch itself, arch styles/ movements, arch as a whole,   The Evolution of Designs- Steadman Preface Organic metaphor in architecture: Aristotle, Alberti- concinnitas Ernst Haeckel influence on jugendstil And art nouveau 19th c embryology and criminology to Adolf loos ornament and crime 20th c German school […]

• Relevance and Adaptation

  The idea of relevance is always in architecture but the aspects of what is relevant at the time changes constantly. Is there a way to design something that will adapt to the people and keep changing with the times to allow the design to never become irrelevant? Most places become abandonded because they served out […]

• Really long list of initial ideas

  I’m having a hard time narrowing down my interests to decide which to develop further… I was hoping you could point me in the right direction as to which categories are worth further exploration. Here is a list of supplemental ideas since my last posts. Thanks! Brenna Species & processes to study/ emulate/ modify SPECIES: Coral, Bamboo, Willow […]

• DNA Technology

  http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/04/tech/innovation/dna-face-sculptures/index.html This reminded me when we were talking about DNA sequencing and soon everyone can get a full DNA record of anyone if they have any of their DNA. This artist finds random DNA in different places and is able to recreate peoples faces based on their DNA.

• Technology as Prosthetic

  Thesis – Working Ideas Nature and Nurture   “If have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Issac Newton   “What Hath God Wrought” Samuel Morse and Annie Ellsworth Numbers 23:23   For the purposes of this argument, let’s assume that man needs a certain amount of nature and nurture in […]

• This is Caitlin’s project stream

  Harmonious Living “Every living thing struggles to exist at the expense of another life.”- The Island We, humans have destroyed nature to build our cities and homes. We keep nature at bay constantly because if we weren’t here to keep it under control, it would over take the cities we created so carefully while destroying […]