Noosphere 5.0

That the internet lacks organization and structure to the point where it’s disorganization requires search engines to sift through countless numbers of pages to arrive at the sites whose interconnectedness is the most densest matching the search criteria is a problem that can perhaps be achieved spatially. Emergent systems, such as brains, cities, cells and [...]

Age of Entanglement

The world seems to be less predictable these days, with political and social unrest, a slowly recovering economy and a changing climate. Futurists predict faster changes in the next 20 years, with large impacts on economy, sociology and our daily life. The trends with the biggest influence are reworking our financial systems, the need to [...]

Latour: Networks, Societies, Spheres

Archimorph Book I: Biophilia + Technophilia (part 1)

-Continuing the discourse on technologies role in architecture, Biophilia + Technophilia interjects with a series of polemical essays on architectures role via the coevolution of technology and biology. The text alludes to an architecture where constructs are built of biotechnical mergers, from the bottom-up through molecular processes where they are able to adapt, respond, and [...]

Heterogeneous Space

Site as Assemblage

Thesis Precedents

-Precedent study for thesis project at the University of Michigan Digital Mania Thesis Seminar.

Archimorph Book i

-In early 2011 Archimorph will be publishing their first book, self-titled; Archimorph Book I: Architecture, Biomimetics, Technology. More information will be available closer to the release date.-JB

archimorph | online

The updated archimorph webpage(www.archimorph.com) is now online. It features projects by archimorph since its conception in 2007, while also displaying personal academic work from Jon Bailey and Jason Pierce. The website is a more coherent collection of the work generated and displayed on the blog while pulling together archimorph’s distributed nodes from the network into [...]

UofM | Future of Urbanism

University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning will host a conference, Future of Urbanism, March 19 & 20, 2010. An international roster of speakers – academics and practioners – will address some of the most critical issues facing our cities and their environs in six sessions, comprised of 15-minute segments and a [...]