Studio-X

Studio-X Studio-X is GSAPP’s global network of advanced research laboratories for exploring the future of cities. With locations in Amman, Beijing, Moscow, Mumbai, New York, and Rio de Janeiro, it is the first truly global network for real-time exchange of projects, people, and ideas between regional leadership cities in which the best minds from Columbia [...]

Archimorph + LoT Exhibition

-a r c h i m o r p h has been selected by the jury to appear in the suckerPUNCH Land of Tomorrow exhibition in Lexington Kentucky: We’re happy to announce the finalists of the Exhibition Competition! The three finalists which each have a portion of their project prototypes by PR&vD. There are also [...]

Biophilia + Technophila: Full Text

BIOPHILIA + TECHNOPHILIA THROUGHOUT the course of human evolution our lives have become intrinsically tied to the evolution of technology to the point where our trajectories have become one of an interwoven existence as they continue to become interconnected through the progression of time. Infatuations with biology and technology spurred by the Industrial Revolution and [...]

Research Through MAKING

The 2011 Research Through Making Faculty research grant recipients were announced by Dean Monica Ponce de Leon and awarded to Taubman College architecture faculty on April 1, 2011. Five grants were competitively awarded for the production of a research or creative project that is predicated on MAKING. Research Through Making Presentations: Glass Cast, Catie Newell [...]

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 [...]

Emergent Classical

-Emergent Classical by Parke MacDowell

BOOK ONE

-Archimorph: BOOK ONE: Biophilia + Technophilia, 2011.

Biophilia + Technophilia: Final Narrative

Biophilia : Technophilia (Final Narrative) Throughout the course of human evolution our lives have become intrinsically tied to the evolution of technology to the point where these two trajectories have become one of an interwoven existence as they continue to become interconnected through the progression of time. Infatuations with biology and technology spurred by the [...]

Biophilia : Technophilia Timeline

-Biophilia : Technophilia Timeline The timeline depicts biological discoveries next to technological advancements made since the 1600s as well as future projections from the BT Technology timeline. Represented in the timeline are the technological advancements which occured as a result of biological discoveries, which in turn propelled further biological discovery. As technologies evolve the timeline [...]

Atmospheric Augmentation

-Responsive to atmospheric conditions, chemicals (dimethyl sulphide) released from the epidermal layer growing from the scaffolding induce the formation of clouds, braiding the sky as the scaffolding begins to manipulate weather patterns.