Computation against design? Toward a new logicocentrism in architecture (2010)
article⁄Computation against design? Toward a new logicocentrism in architecture (2010)
abstract⁄The purpose of this paper is to make apparent critical and theoretical aspects of the instrumentation of new technologies inside architectural processes. After twenty five years of ‘Choral Work’ between architecture and poststructuralist philosophy superimposed together inside architectural processes, we now face a new technological era which seems to provide a new figure of authority by replacing logocentrism to mathematical logicocentrism. Everywhere, the ‘insemination’ of computer by biogenetic algorithms and codification processes transform matter into a zoocentric paradigmatic system, which is supposed, by its internal ‘modulation,’ to extend our potential of social dynamics into space. The goal of our demonstration will then be to examine new technical and theoretical strategies, in a way that the positivistic structure of computation can avoid a totalizing effect that leading architecture under technological domination, but open up to an unprogrammable emergent future far above ‘weaving’ and calculated design.
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2010 |
| Authors |
Meier, Alexis. |
| Issue |
ACADIA 10: LIFE in:formation, On Responsive Information and Variations in Architecture |
| Pages |
49-52 |
| Library link |
N/A |
| Entry filename |
computation-against-design |
