AA have started posting videos of their lectures. Check out Tom Wiscombe’s Extreme Integration lecture.

Four noteworthy publications on digital architecture are now out:

• Digital Cities AD: Architectural Design Edited by Neil Leich, articles by Michael Batty, Benjamin Bratton, Alain Chiaradia, Manuel DeLanda, Vicente Guallart and Peter Trummer.
• Research & Design: The Architecture of Variation by Lars Spuybroek
• The Patterns of Architecture: Architectural Design Edited by Mark Garcia, articles by Hanif Kara, Patrik Schumacher and Alejandro Zaera–Polo.
• Digital Fabrications: Architectural and Material Techniques (Architecture Briefs) by Lisa Iwamoto

You can get them from Amazon by clicking on the links above or from our bookshop.

Dear all,

Hope you all enjoyed the session, I post here the ghx file for the tutorial we have gone through. Feel free to post some questions and we can discuss from here.

Tom

Demo01: sorting and Components created on a field

Demo01: ghx

demo01: 091026-DEMO-sortingcompoment

Demo02: surface tessellation with components

Demo02: ghx

demo02: 091026-DEMO-surf-tess

Collated research on emergent techniques for poured aggregates.

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Interesting tower study from fluxi-z – an aadrl team from the Parametric Urbanism 3 program.

Spatial and energy connectivity

Our end of year catalogue has just been published. You can download the DS13 section here.

The project is concerned with a museum typology informed by a very specific architectural language and experiential affect. This affect is based on tangential continuity as a spatial mediator and structural technique.

The connective relationships between the buildings functions have been developed through research focused upon the movement of people between museum spaces. The experiential affect is a product of the transition between the prismic geometry of the surrounding urban context, to which the building’s exterior skin is aligned,  and the specific performative nature of the interconnected, tangentially continuous circulatory network.

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This just out: a new reader from AD, edited by Michael Hensel, Achim Menges and Christopher Hight with essays by Stan Allen, Reyner Banham, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Robin Evans, Jeff Kipnis and Bernard Tschumi. You can buy it from here or from our bookshop.

Below via Amazon:

The Space Reader provides a highly pertinent and contemporary understanding of space for a new generation of students and architects. It espouses a definition of space that is … read more

via Core Form-ula:

Students from Stevens Institute of Technology are showcasing GC work at Center for Architecture in New York offering a glimpse of what can be expected at Smart Geometry 2009 in San Francisco.

For a more in depth look at their projets, go to Stevens Class Wiki.

Lift Architects have released the first edition of a Grasshopper Primer.

Evolo has posted the winners for the 2009 Skyscraper competition.
See them here.