Scaffolding + Aggregations

-Big Bambu, Starn Studio -Designed Particle Aggregations, Achim Menges Studio, Rice University + AA London, 2003-2004 -Achim Menges Studio

Neri Oxmon: On Designing Form

-Architect Neri Oxman is the founder of MATERIALECOLOGY, an interdisciplinary design initiative expanding the boundaries of computational form-generation and material engineering. Named one of Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business,” Oxman investigates the material and performance of nature in an effort to define form itself. -Source

anonymous.a(rchitect) 02

-In addition to entering this years eVolo 2012 Skyscraper competition, Archimorph will be entering into the anonymous.d competition: CHALLENGE anonymous.a – architectural competition anonymous.a architectural competition is aimed at small structures that CAN be built! Every year we are organizing a series of 4 architectural competitions that will conclude in an annual exhibition of all [...]

Rachel Armstrong | Letter to Arup

Mitchell Joachim. TERREFORM1: BlimpBumperBus Response to ‘Under Imagined Future of Transport’ posted by Susan Claris Letter to ARUP, by Rachel Armstrong I don’t agree that the importance of forward-thinking long term planning is over sold! What I do think is over-sold – is the productisation of very specific solutions to challenges that are not well [...]

Morphogenetic Structuralism 2.00

-Python scripted structural system in collaboration with membrane created by Erick Katzenstein. Wrapping the structure is a form-fitting membrane, via a definition in grasshopper utilizing Kangaroo and WeaverBird. Animation of process to follow…

Morphogenetic Structuralism

-Testing of a particle system written with Python; the particles are reacting to attractors, velocity, cohesion, and gravity within a field aggregating with minimum and maximum ‘strut’ lengths.

Spotlight: Perry Kulper

Perry Kulper is an architect and associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan. Prior to his arrival at the University of Michigan he was a SCI-Arc faculty member for 16 years as well as in visiting positions at the University of Pennsylvania and Arizona State University. Subsequent to his studies at California Polytechnic [...]

Constructed Atmospheres

Constructed Atmospheres, Philippe Rahm Might not climate be a new architectural language, a language for architecture rethought with meteorology in mind? Might it be possible to imagine climatic phenomena such as convection, conduction or evaporation for example as new tools for architectural composition? Could vapor, heat or light become the new bricks of contemporary construction? [...]

Metabolism of the City

Metabolism of the City, Michael Weinstock Geometry has always been the principal mathematical means of describing the form of a city, persisting from the plans of ancient cities through to many contemporary studies. In recent decades there has been an increasing interest in the application to urban analysis of mathematical techniques that are more commonly [...]

The Ends of the Parabola

The Ends of the Parabola-Kevin Pratt WIDELY RECOGNIZED in academic circles as an architectural polymath, Sanford Kwinter is famous among students for beginning each semester by first asking his classes what they would like him to teach, and then, regardless of subject, assigning reading material and speaking extempore with the kind of accessible erudition most [...]