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Paul Seletsky has been generous enough to share his essay entitled “The Digital Design Ecosystem:Toward a Pre-Rational Architecture” with core.form-ula. It is examination on how digital technology has and will impact the architectural practice.
Paul Seletsky, Associate AIA, is the Senior Manager of Digital Design for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP in New York. He presides over strategic implementation of the Digital Design process, as well as research and development initiatives. He chairs the AIANY Technology Committee as curator of a monthly lecture series highlighting technology and its impact on practice, and his work and writings have fostered critical discussion and awareness in this realm. Mr. Seletsky received his degree in architecture from Cooper Union in New York, has managed Digital Design in both the public and private sectors, and lectures actively within academic and professional venues.
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[C]space is the winning competition entry in the ‘AADRLTen’ Pavilion project, an advanced technology concrete structure that will be erected in Bedford Square,London. The AADRL10 exhibition will open on the 22 February 2008 and the Pavilion will officialy open on 13 March 2008 along with the release of the DRL10 Book. The structure is being designed and developed by Alan Dempsey and Alvin Huang with Adams Kara Taylor and members of the DRL.
via> c space pavilion blogspot
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An electron micrograph reveals sharkskin’s secret to speed: tooth-like scales called dermal denticles. Water “races through the microgrooves without tumbling,” says shark researcher George Burgess, reducing friction. “It’s like a fast-moving river current versus the gurgling turbulence of a shallow stream.” The scales also discourage barnacles and algae from glomming on—an inspiration for synthetic coatings that may soon be applied to Navy ship hulls to reduce such biofouling.
What has fins like a whale, skin like a lizard, and eyes like a moth? The future of engineering.
via> National Geographic (April 2008)
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Jean Nouvel, the bold French architect known for such wildly diverse projects as the muscular Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis and the exotically louvered Arab World Institute in Paris, has received architecture’s top honor, the Pritzker Prize.
Via-www.nytimes.com
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Dominic Leong, principal of PARA gives us our 1st of what we hope to be a long line of quality articles.
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