THE END OF THE PROFESSION OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE AGE OF PLANETARY COMPUTATION

Architecture, as it is being practiced for the last two hundred years or so is gradually coming to an end … Sorry to say this: architecture is a dying profession … Software applications and robotic systems will soon become so intelligent and automated that in the foreseeable future – in my students life time – architects will cease to be necessary for the design and production of buildings and cities … everything will be automated like everything else in the world, signifying gradual disappearance of the profession of architecture … the only thing imaginable that might survive the end of the profession but perhaps not the discipline is to engender new IDEAS for the design of LIFE – of Possible Worlds that are Unheard-Of – new forms of EXISTENCE … and even then, don’t bet on it … it would require the utmost creativity at the edge of the computable and the imaginable in order to out-wit planetary computation … all that scripting and fabrication systems that are now being explored will be child’s play in the very near future … the urgent thing that is needed the most is to learn TO THINK CREATIVELY beyond the envelope of the discipline of ARCHITECTURE as we have known it for the last five thousand years … !

Karl Chu

Achim Menges on Computation in relation to design

[..] Computation provides a framework for negotiating and influencing the interrelation of datasets of information, with the capacity to generate complex order, form and structure. Computation as a design methodology is to formulate the specific. Where computer-aidid processes begin with the specific and end with the object, computational processes start with elemental properties and generative rules to end with information which derives form as a dynimic system.

We are the hackers of abstraction. We produce new concepts, new perceptions, new sensations, hacked out of raw data. Whatever we hack, be it programming language, poetic language, math or music, curves or colorings, we are the abstracters of new worlds. Whether we come to represent ourselves as researchers or authors, artists or biologists, chemists or musicians, philosophers or programmers, each of these subjectivities is but a fragment of a class still becoming, bit by bit, aware of itself as such.

A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark (via ezioblasetti)

(..) This connected network of information in the cloud will be tailored through portals and digital devices to directly connect the disparate spatial phenomena and the interested parties. The portals will collect and transform information, presenting it to a team member in a way that is specific to that person.
This technical architecture will profoundly impact the tools that design professionals use, but far more significantly will infuse the process of design and delivery, our identities as professionals, our connection to our work, and work to society. This is true of any discipline. Architecture will, however, be uniquely impacted by spatial aspects - the ways that networked space and spatial structure weave their way through the Web and out into the world. Algorithmic geometry - the transformations, mappings and embeddings that connect the data stores and bridge the digital-physical divide - will structure the spatial connectedness of this network.

Dennis Shelden on NETWORKED & WEB SPACE  (via et-viceversa)

Experiments in order to get a fibrous look from a DLA process.

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Experiments in order to get a fibrous look from a DLA process.

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The potential of complex parametric relationships are to become radically inclusive and reconcile this artificial, form-vs.-material binary. Parametric models offer another type of play and design process based around multiplicity of scalar parameters, but it never resolves what parameters are necessary for architecture.

Michael Meredith
#GlobalP2P, el viento que desordenó las redes Here the VISUALIZATION by OUTLIERS http://demos.outliers.es/wikiSprint/

The difference between science and philosophy is that the scientist learns more and more about less and less until she knows everything about nothing, whereas a philosopher learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything.

Dorion Sagan on science and philosophy (via explore-blog)
Affective Cities v.02 An affective geometry emerges from the city, helping us to understand better the city dynamics and interactions. Also, each corner of the city can be transformed into a piece of art, collecting all the feelings, images and texts...