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Computer Programming as an Art
“It seems to me that if the authors I studied were writing today, they would agree with the following characterization: Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it. Since the notion of […]
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Multi Sensitive Space - Der multisensuelle Raum - Mirko Immendörfer
Download (German) I’ve been meaning to post this for a while. My very clever friend Mirko Immendörfer’s phd Dissertation on Multi Sensitive Space. Mirko currently works for dRMM Architects in London and previously worked for architectural practices in Germany such as Prof. Wulf und Partner, infra plan, MBAS and at Takenaka Europe. […]
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Articles, Virtual
Karl Schroeder, “Cyberspace, R.I.P.”
Great Quote I thought I’d put on since I was recently asked what the relationship between cyberspace and interactive architecture is.
Cyberspace, RIP by Karl Schroeder from Future Now
“It’s this overlay of the virtual over the real that makes the cyberspace metaphor obsolete. Cyberspace, after all, is conceived as something like the astral plane–a digital reality […] -
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Adam Greenfield on Ubiquitous Computing
Ubiquitous Computing integrates computation into the environment, rather than having computers which are distinct objects. An major aspect of interactive architecture “Ubicomp” is an essential part of embedding architecture with digital systems.
Here’s an English translation of an interview recently conducted by the French magazine Internet Actu with Adam Greenfield who’s releasing a book soon called […] -
Articles, Devices, Interactive
The Future of Wearable Computing
Interesting introductory article on the future of ‘Wearable Computing’
Image Above - Motion Aware Clothing M.A.C. unobtrusively integrates various sensors as well as computational and communication abilities in a textile.
” Currently a 1kg, A5 sized subnotebook with a PCMCIA wireless modem can offer virtually all the functionality of a conventional PC. Simple PC functions and rudimentary […]
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Articles, Bartlett
Usman Haque - Open Source Architecture
Our constructed environment, with its direct impact on people every day and its constant transformation through use and reuse, is a collectively designed project. It incorporates vastly different and sometimes conflicting logics. The issues arising from people’s differing perspectives and approaches will have significant consequences on the way architecture in general evolves in the twenty-first […]
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