You really wish you could attend these conferences
You so wish you could attend these two conferences. But you won’t be invited. You’re more than 34 years too late. There’s …
Misfits and architecture machines
A few days ago, I wrote about some basics of cybernetics, concluding with a snippet from Gordon Pask’s “The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics. …
A network of constant interactions and communications
[This post is a part of a month of Cyborgs, a project started by Quiet Babylon's Tim Maly. It's the first of …
as miniaturization becomes total…
Cedric Price, untitled & undated note. O.C.H. folio DR1995:0224:324:002, Cedric Price Archive, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. Found in Cedric Price’s Oxford …
The future in the past and past futures
In June, I spent several days in Nicholas Negroponte’s personal archive from the Architecture Machine Group era up to the founding of the …
weeknote 13: greetings from montreal
Greetings from the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal! I’m here on a Collections Research Grant to use the Cedric Price Archive. …
Dissertation proposal! Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Intelligence: The Computer in Architecture, 1960–80
UPDATE: My dissertation proposal. I’ve completed my dissertation proposal! My dissertation is tentatively titled “Artificial Intelligence, Architectural Intelligence: The Computer in Architecture, …
today, we operate on objects
“What, then, is the ‘object?’ Every object is the nodal point, the boundary point in the relationship between person and person. Whoever …
NYC pneumatic tube receptacle
NYC pneumatic tube receptacle Originally uploaded by maximolly. Everyone in the world knows of my fascination with pneumatic tubes. Here's one from …
It really is a series of tubes
Just call me Fallopia. In early March, I gave an Ignite talk at eTech about pneumatic tubes– a five-minute talk where the …