Thursday, October 7, 2010

EXP2: RELEVANCE TO CYBERNETICS

A developing understanding of Cybernetics in Architecture, key concepts and ideas. 

"[Cederic] Price believed that architecture was a service, that it should enable its users to recondition it in relation to their needs and criteria. He also believed that the delaying of spatial decisions in an ever-changing world was vitally important." Neil Spiller, Digital Architecture Now- A Global Survey of Emerging Talent, p. 10
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedric_Price
http://designmuseum.org/design/cedric-price

Conversation Theory:- "[Gordon] Pask believed that out knowledge of the world is conditioned by the conversation we have with it and with others. In relation to architecture, the process and re-evaluation that a designer adopts is a second-order cybernetics conversation. Once we understand the process we instigate when designing, it follows that we should then ask whether it is possible to create an architecture machine that might then help us to design" Neil Spiller, Digital Architecture Now- A Global Survey of Emerging Talent, p. 11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Pask
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversation_Theory


Cybernetics in architecture also relates to other notions, including: the creation of evolutionary architecture that achieves in the built environment the symbiotic behaviour and metabolic balance that are characteristic of the natural environment, the construction of building elements that have the ability to respond to data streams in real time, the utilization of algorithms to generate architecture- in a sense 'breding' the forms achieved. 

"All manner of data can be collected, transmitted and relocated, and this data can be used to create animated surfaces withinstructures while also forming the fundamental building blocks of buildings. Therefore the old typologies of buildingshave become corrupt and blurred. Without the rapid evolution of the computer and its ways of processing and keeping check on large amounts of data, none of there new projects would be possible." Neil Spiller, Digital Architecture Now- A Global Survey of Emerging Talent, p. 13

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