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Super-complexity & Human Perception

The power of the human brain to perceive and understand everything around us is limited. However, these boundaries are being pushed continually, and our “perception bubble” is continuously extending ...

Testing your tools.

There have been many discussions in the current discourse over tool development and customization by architects and designers. An equally important argument here is the testing of the tools. This ...

Shapes of Parametric Design

Architectural Design with Parametric Design Parametricism as an epochal phenomenon in the history of architecture has defined many rules for the current designers and for future practitioners to ...

Create your tools, first.

Ivan Edward Sutherland, ‘Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System’ Computational pioneer Mark Weiser stated in 1991 that ‘The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They ...

What is it, to Design? | Louis Kahn

on ‘White Light and Black Shadow’ by Louis Kahn In today's world of instant-gratification, hyper-information, and visual-masturbation (especially in the web/blog culture of Architecture and Design), ...

LEBBEUS WOODS (1940-2012)

"Architecture does not exist, what exists is the spirit of Architecture" - Louis Kahn While in Rhinebeck, evacuated from New York City due to Hurricane Sandy, I received a 5:45am phone call from ...

GreenGen energy plant

LT Power

GreenGen energy plant Massive power stations are not usually considered within the realm of architectural discourse, but they hold all of us, including the architecture we create, within their sphere ...

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