Body Conscious Design
The effects of space on mind and body Sometimes we find that we have invested time and money to finally get away to a nice place, expecting a relaxing weekend or holiday, when in fact our bodies never really are able to let go. Why is that?
Definition of Biourbanism
Biourbanism focuses on the urban organism, considering it as a hypercomplex system, according to its internal and external dynamics and their mutual interactions. The urban body is composed of several interconnected layers of dynamic structure, all influencing each other in a non-linear manner. This interaction results in emergent properties …
The Battle for Ordinary Human Existence in Our Time
Upon the completion of his four-volume work,Christopher Alexander interviewed by Kim A. O’Connell In the 1970s, architect Christopher Alexander, along with his colleagues at the Center for Environmental Structure in Berkeley, California, published a trilogy of books—The Timeless Way of Building, A Pattern Language, and The Oregon Experiment—centered on the theory that people can and [...]
what is complexity?
Complexity has turned out to be very difficult to define. The dozens of definitions that have been offered all fall short in one respect or another, classifying something as complex which we intuitively would see as simple, or denying an obviously complex phenomenon the label of complexity. Moreover, these definitions are either only applicable to a very restricted domain, such as computer algorithms or genomes, or so vague as to be almost meaningless.
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