January 2010
8 posts
Amoeboid designs complex transportation network,...
via arstechnica.com “As part of their experimentation with the slime, the researchers placed 36 food sources on a substrate in a manner that mimicked the geographical layout of cities around Tokyo. (Physarum is apparently fond of oat flakes.) They then introduced the slime mold to the foraging grounds and compared the network that it formed with the actual Tokyo rail network in place...
Out-of-Work Architects Turn to Other Skills
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/garden/21architects.html?em Ben told me about this s Posted via email from postarchitectural | Comment »
The Scale Every Business Needs Now - Umair Haque -...
Here’s what the economic historians of the 23rd Century are going to say about the 20th. “They built giant, globe-spanning organizations, that employed tens of thousands of people working around the clock, to produce… sugar water, fast food, disposable razors, and gas guzzlers. Perhaps the defining characteristic of the paradigm of 20th Century capitalism was its...
‘AESTHETICIZING VIOLENCE’ « LEBBEUS WOODS
Architects love to take on the easy problems—the ones already solved—and make them difficult. This way they can have it both ways: operating safely within the boundaries of the known and, at the same time, being daring innovators—but with a minimum of actual risk. … architects are reluctant to take on the difficult problems—the ones not yet solved—such as the restoration of slums; the...
SUPERFRONT LA presents UNPLANNED: Research and...
via losangeles.superfront.org much love for Mitch and Superfront Posted via web from postarchitectural | Comment »
crayons « Weather Sealed
via weathersealed.com evolution of the Crayola colors from 1903 to 2010 Posted via web from postarchitectural | Comment »
Frieze Magazine | Archive | The Art of War
However, according to urban theorist Simon Marvin, the military-architectural ‘shadow world’ is currently generating more intense and well-funded urban research programmes than all these university programmes put together, and is certainly aware of the avant-garde urban research conducted in architectural institutions, especially as regards Third World and African cities. There is a considerable...
suckerPUNCH » pAlice
via suckerpunchdaily.com SoftLab does some great work again — just saw Ryan Alexander’s piece at GAFFTA which reminds me of this Posted via web from postarchitectural | Comment »