Yearly Archives: 2010

Book: Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future

Book: Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future “Two books I read in the past month overlap with each other in useful ways. The first, Commonwealth by Toni Negri and Michael Hardt, is the third volume of their epic theoretical work that began with Empire and continued through Multitudes. While I’m not a camp follower per se, I did get a lot out of these efforts and was glad to read Commonwealth as the conclusion. It made some parts of their argument clearer, but left some important areas unresolved and even self-contradictory. I suppose that’s to be expected with such an ambitious effort to unravel this moment in history, the rise of new paradigms of both capitalist self-perpetuation and (potentially) revolutionary subversion. read more

Introduction to “Pattern Language”

Introduction to “Pattern Language” Using the work of Christopher Alexander and Nikos Salingaros, I present a paper that want discuss the philosophical structure that are behind The Pattern Language (PL). Through a simple way I’ll show you the intimate connection existing among the PL and other cultural aspect like painting as well as the fractal geometry. I have referred my philosophical approach especially to the work of Oswald Spengler and his work “Der Untergang des Abendlandes” read more

Steady Tendency and Progress in the Study of Natural and Technological Phenomena (Biology of Form, Linguistics, Urbanism)

Steady Tendency and Progress in the Study of Natural and Technological Phenomena (Biology of Form, Linguistics, Urbanism) The idea of a very effective scientific network, based upon “biophilic” architecture principles (peer-to-peer, self-organized, scaled, self-similar, and “small-world”-like network) is offered here. The network should be Russian both in language and scientific tradition, offering a paradigm for a new, hyper-connected vision of world science, based on a multi-centric epistemology. read more

Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction

Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction Anti Architecture and deconstruction is a collection of essays on deconstructivist architecture. This book raises questions about how the public can be indoctrinated to accept an architecture that is hostile to human sensibilities, and which often causes physiological and psychological distress. In trying to understand the adoption of an architectural fashion, writers often focus only on aesthetic points, and ignore psychological conditioning and the role of the media. I look at the dark underside of contemporary architecture, and the world that promotes and sustains it.and precedents, while distancing themselves from basic human needs and cultural contexts. read more

Città Storica. Città Digitale. Città Futura. [IT]

Città Storica. Città Digitale. Città Futura. [IT] Il 48° Congresso AICA è organizzato con l'Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, città dove il devastante sisma del 6 Aprile 2009 ha colpito duramente gran parte della città e dei centri abitati circostanti come anche gran parte delle infrastrutture di base, acquedotti, rete del gas, rete elettrica. A poco più di 1 anno dal sisma e dall’uscita dalla fase di emergenza, inizia un percorso di ricostruzione in tutti i settori, di cui l'ICT può costituire il volano facilitatore. read more

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