Archive for July, 2007
Interesting artcle about organics and evolutionary architecture
by admin on July 2nd, 2007
There is some great article about new forms in architecture:
A couple of days ago I added a new text to the ‘sources‘ section of my site: “Organics“, a short but very utopic text published by William Katavolos in 1961, including a few drawings of the world to come. He had a vision of a new kind of building technology, enabling houses to be built by mixing a few preprogrammed chemical components as if they were a cups of instant soup. He describes this vision wholly in terms of plastics, catalysts and blow-molded shapes, but I think his dreams are suddenly very relevant again in our time as we are told biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology and modular robotics are almost there to invade and reshape our daily lives.
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