Un détail de ce qui change: Function of a Function

Why should computation be leading to a bifurcation in architectural detailing, resulting in a simultaneous, and opposing, tendency towards either greater precision in fabrication or increasing plasticity? Architectural designer and theorist Peter Macapia asks what is driving these propensities in computation, and what in turn historically might be the relation between the detail and force. What comes into play now, though, when architectural style is no longer identified by a taxonomy of parts, or a vocabulary of orders, but rather by a network of forces and functions correlating actions? How might economic and political power be interacting with force, the diagram and function in contemporary design?     

尼采的权力意志与纳粹的理论支撑

每一次重大的历史事件之后必有意识的支撑。德国纳粹对整个世界的影响,追究其理论来源与尼采的权力意志等思想有不可脱离的关系。希特勒和纳粹思想家们就其实质而言,主要吸收了普鲁士——德意志和德国帝国主义形成时期一切敌视进步、反对民主、反对人道和非理性的思想。其中,尼采的一些重要思想也被吸收和利用了。只不过尼采是思想意识的阐释者,而希特勒是将理论转为现实的实践家。     

The Post-Epistemological Details of Oceanic Ontologies

The convergence of advanced technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, information and cognitive (NBIC) technologies is opening up the possibilities of working in architecture with lifelike systems and detailing dynamic matter. Here Rachel Armstrong , a co-director of the Advanced Virtual and Technological Architectural Research (AVATAR) group at the University of Greenwich, London, explores the potentials and limits of these emerging ‘Oceanic Ontologies’.     

Language,Life, Code

Software increasingly determines what can be designed, constructed and even how design occurs. Here, Alexander R Galloway and Eugene Thacker present a series of investigations with the collaborative Radical Software Group (RSG). Their practice examines the nature of software code as a form of language. Addressing theoretical issues regarding meaning and representation, they argue for thinking more abstractly and generatively about language, and propose a new, or liberated, computer language in which the representational determinations implicit to any software are geared towards innovation in communication and design. By rewriting the software that allows for the transmission and translation of knowledge across previously discrete fields of production, programming allows for new and productive cross-pollination. Indeed, programming becomes a new site of design that enfolds disciplines not traditionally seen as part of the creative processes of innovation. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The Art of Prediction

Charles Jencks has form. One of the most influential architectural authors and thinkers of our time, he has been forecasting futures and anticipating trends for half a century. His 1971 book Architecture 2000: Predictions and Methods gazed into the crystal ball 29 years ahead of the millennium. Here he provides a comprehensive overview of the art of prediction and its widely divergent styles and approaches.     

Sense and Sensibilia

Since the 1960s, innovation has become one of the sole purposes of architecture and membership of the avant-garde an underlying motive force. Philippe Morel of EZCT Architecture & Design Research juxtaposes the ‘sense and sensibilia’ of mathematics, now widely adopted by the ‘creative minorities’, against the idealism of mid 20th-century modernism. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Transgression: The Concept

Eminent sociologist and author of Transgression (2003), Chris Jenks provides an essential introduction to transgression as a cultural concept. He explores its philosophical roots, its emergence in the radical uncertainty of the early 20th century, and how it came to be most closely associated with the provocative writings of the French intellectual Georges Bataille.     

Lightness and Fluidity: Remarks Concerning the Aesthetics of Elegance

Over the last century, elegance as a term has been conspicuously absent from discussions centred on both architecture and the philosophy of aesthetics. Elegance's time has, however, now come. David Goldblatt describes how the maturation of digital discourse has led to the onset of a new, multifaceted, sensual rationality that is evident in recent designs and constructed works. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

尼采与劳伦斯共性探析

尼采 ,19世纪末德国乃至世界著名哲学家 ;劳伦斯 ,是 2 0世纪初英国著名作家、文学家。劳伦斯在反对工业文明 ,反对基督教 ,反对理性与道德以及追求生命的永恒价值上与尼采生命意志哲学的一致 ,体现了尼采与劳伦斯之间的内在联系和共性所在。劳伦斯与尼采的关系 ,不仅是思想的一致 ,更是血肉的相通