Contribuciones: Manuel Gausa. Decalogues For A New Informational Era (3/3). Heptalogue : Multi-Cities; Prospective Program

Decalogues For A New Informational Era (3/3) Heptalogue : Multi-Cities; Prospective Program From the city as a formal model to the city as an informational system We can, thus, define a new action prospective program that has not only promoted, but continues driving, investigations, searches and strategies associated with this new dynamic, complex and informational … Seguir leyendo

Contribuciones: Manuel Gausa. Decalogues For A New Informational Era (2/3). Decalogue 2: Urban Cha(Lle)Nges

Decalogues For A New Informational Era (2/3) Decalogue 2: Urban Cha(Lle)Nges These new informational changes of paradigms (and their main-vectors of propositional strategies and design: dynamism/evolutivity; complexity/simultaneity; diversity/plurality; transversality/connectivity; interaction/interchange) have direct translations in our lecture and interpretation of our contemporary urban structures and in the conception of the city as a new kind of … Seguir leyendo

Contribuciones: Manuel Gausa. Decalogues For A New Informational Era (1/3). Decalogue 1: Changes Of Paradigms

Decalogues For A New Informational Era (1/3) Decalogue 1: Changes Of Paradigms 1– The last few decades have confirmed the evidence of a spectacular change of scale –and thinking– in the definition of our spaces of exchange and sociability –of our own habitats– linked with the exponential increase in mobility, (hiper)connectivity and long-distance communication, the … Seguir leyendo

Food for Thought: Technological City And Cultural Criticism: Challenges, Limits, Politics By Paolo Pileri

Food for Thought: Technological City And Cultural Criticism: Challenges, Limits, Politics By Paolo Pileri Introduction: the profound crisis and the technological hope For several years now, we have been in a state of profound crisis and the hope of finally exiting it fills the pages of the daily newspapers. Technology, in its various forms and … Seguir leyendo

Food for Thought: A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites by Robert Smithson

Food for Thought: A Provisional Theory of Non-Sites by Robert Smithson By drawing a diagram, a ground plan of a house, a street plan to the location of a site, or a topographic map, one draws a logical two dimensional picture. A logical picture differs from a natural or realistic picture in that it rarely … Seguir leyendo

Food for thought: Why revolution is no longer possible by Byung-Chul Han

Food for thought: Why revolution is no longer possible By Byung-Chul Han[1] Introduction: Food for Thought section aims to publish top texts from open mind and open origin thinkers that are at the backyard of axonométrica ecosystem of ideas and concepts. Some are physically in my library, others became an inspiring part of my own … Seguir leyendo

Conversations; The Keys to Teaching Architecture Today

Conversations; The Keys to Teaching Architecture Today These conversations take place in the framework of the preliminary tasks of the book Cutting-edge Landscapes. This book goes beyond being a collection of student projects from Final Design Project TFG year of Esarq_UIC 2014/2015. Actually it’s a publication that aims to share an intense 11-month structured reflection … Seguir leyendo

New Opportunities for the Entropic Landscape

New Opportunities for the Entropic Landscape In contemporary terms we tend to speak of landscape. We also tend to speak of the urban. Further, in the collective imaginary of urban planners, landscape designers, geographers and architects, we tend to coincide in speaking of urban landscape, as a conceptual space where the notion of landscape and … Seguir leyendo

New Design Tools of Reference: Hyper-Materiality

New Design Tools of Reference: Hyper-Materiality NOTE: The next text is part of a number of significant posts I published in that blog, that have been recently translated into english. I would like to thanks to Josephine Watson for the translation of the texts. I guess, in the near future, to translate some others more … Seguir leyendo

New Design Tools of Reference: Productive Landscapes

New Design Tools of Reference: Productive Landscapes NOTE: The next text is part of a number of significant posts I published in that blog, that have been recently translated into english. I would like to thanks to Josephine Watson for the translation of the texts. I guess, in the near future, to translate some others … Seguir leyendo