News: AA_02 + eVolo

Planks + Pixels [Previous Post] was chosen as among the honorable mentions for the anonymous.a(rchitect) competition. Congratulations to the winners and all of the participants. eVolo 2012 skyscraper competition has ended as of the 24th with project winners announced February 27th. Boards in collaboration between Archimorph and HKS, Inc. will be posted at that time.

Planks + Pixels

Planks + Pixels Jon Bailey & Erick Katzenstein Comprised of horizontal serial sections of wood, the AA_02 : Planks + Pixels installation transforms a once socially-deprived voluminous-void into a socially activated replacement. Vacant spaces becomes digitally congealed, eroded and guided over time by a stream of excited energy particulates eroding to expose a striated mass [...]

Toward A Symbiotic Business Model

This is less a question to be answered directly, but rather a provocation for a conceptual business model for the continuation of the architectural profession. I believe that this concept is interesting for the professional practice in that practices are interested both in the innovation of the built environment and the longevity of the profession [...]

ACADIA 2012: Synthetic Digital Ecologies

The contemporary city is characterized by highly integrated and interdependent systems. More than ever this complex weave of bits and atoms demands the application of an eco-systemic methodology to architectural and urban analysis, digital design, fabrication and production. In this context, an emerging ecology of digital tools and techniques now allow designers to craft synthetic [...]

The Fundamentals of Urban Complexity

The qualities of an emergent city The adoption of mass-production processes, or development, in substitution for spontaneous urban growth in the mid-20th century created for the first time a phenomenon of alienation between the inhabitants and their environment. While the physical features of spontaneous cities could be traced to complex histories of families, businesses, and [...]