Kokkugia is a progressive architecture and urban design practice exploring generative and emergent design methods modeled primarily after self-organizing behavior found in biology (resulting in what they call “non-linear” architecture). Its run by Roland Snooks (currently teaching at Columbia GSAPP) …
Solid Thinking is an amazing software that takes your engineered solids and models (in various formats) and optimizes them the same way as if nature had built it (with material only responding to anchors and direct force. You need to …
Case center for Architecture Science and Ecology in NYC is a very promising research program pushing architectural innovation into an entirely new generation. It is a joint collaboration between research office co-hosted by Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore, Owings & …
An awesome book has come to our attention by Actar Publishing entitled Natures. It is part of the elegantly crafted Verb series of “Boogazines” (half book, half magazine, clever eh?). Take a look and see what’s inside, great addition to …
We have been meaning to post about SU11 architecture for quite sometime. They are an excellent firm based in Brooklyn NY run by Ferda Kolatan and Erich Schoenenberger. We’ve included short synopsis of their various projects with plenty of images …
Patrik Schumacher is a partner at Zaha Hadid Architects. He is an accomplished architect and educator having influenced and entire generation of avant garde architectural practitioners. In 2008 he published the Parametric Manifesto, wherein he argued parametric architecture will have …
The British Biological Administration is hosting a Futuristic Water Competition. Their site is pretty vague as far as the competition deadline or prize announcements, it seems to have been scheduled to be revealed in June but the main page claims …
The Vancouver Sigraph Conference is coming up from the 7th to 11th of August, 2011. Lots of great projects will be presented and large thinkers in areas relevant to emergence and generative design, as well as interactive systems and technologies. …
Boston will be hosting a very exciting conference entitled the International Bionic Engineering Conference this coming September. For all those interested please visit the website. The keynote is none other than Dr. Julian Vincent which many of you might know …
French architects Guihun Choe and Etienne Jaunet designed this elaborate “skyscraper city”, for lack of a better term, that functions more as a skeleton rather than a fully functional building. More images included.
