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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY TECHNOLOGY feedback from users– architecture is the design discipline with the […]
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.
Arresting Evolution “Scientific Modern man has become aware of his own evolution.” Julian Huxley. After doing some research on this man, I quickly realized that it is possible to agree with a statement and not the philosophy of the person who was making it. Julian Huxley was an evolutionary biologist and also a eugenicist […]
Man’s technology has allowed us to operate more efficiently, but we have always needed protection from the elements that make us fragile. We are able to live in climates that we are not particularly biologically adapted to live in. In the Things, it states that we were could not again change our biology to live, […]
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 […]
Pet Architecture- Animals have better instincts such as anticipating danger, finding water and food, etc. How can they be used for architecture, resources, survival- in extreme locations or after extreme disasters? Which species would be useful for resource gathering, and which for post-colonization equilibrium maintenance within the new ecosystem? Dune– “Movement across the landscape is a necessity […]
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