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nik baerten
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architecture
new media
organicism
agents
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• how can we provide people with a more organic
  way and means of traveling through the knowledge
  landscape ?

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people
knowledge
landscape
organic
means
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Datatown, MVRDV
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metaphor

• Our ordinary conceptual system, in terms of
  which we both think and act, is fundamentally
  metaphorical in nature.
• Lakoff Johnson, Metaphors we live by

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architecture
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architecture as

• object
• process
• discipline
• metaphor

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why architecture ?

• space vs. organization
• inner vs. outer worlds
• people leave trails
• intertwingledness of and beyond metaphor, too
  many parallels to just ignore them

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space vs. organization

• memory palaces
• imagine
• internal-external feedback loop

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space

• orientation
• navigation
• wayfinding

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inner vs. outer worlds

• internal
• externalize
• organize
• internalize

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beyond the desktop

• ubiquitous computing
• pervasive computing
• calm technology
• ...

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Nebula, Philips Design
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Philips Design
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Philips Design
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Ambiente, GMD-IPSI
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people leave trails

• footprints in the snow
• Vannevar Bushs trailblazers

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some examples
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Guggenheim Museum New York, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Guggenheim Museum New York, Frank Lloyd Wright
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Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Frank O. Gehry
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Virtual Guggenheim Museum, Asymptote
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organic
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organic architecture
So here I stand before you preaching organic
architecture declaring organic architecture to
be the modern ideal and the teaching so much
needed if we are to see the whole of life
Frank Lloyd Wright
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theres more
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Bukit Unggul House - Kisho Kurokawa
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Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright
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• Organic buildings are the strength and lightness
  of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by
  light, bred by native character to environment,
  married to the ground.
• Frank Lloyd Wright

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Church on water - Tadao Ando
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Church on water - Tadao Ando
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• We pierce doors and windows in the walls of a
  house, and it is on these spaces, where there is
  nothing, that the utility of the house depends.
• Tao Te Ching, Lao Tse

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Fukui City Museum of Art - Kisho Kurokawa
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Oita Main Staidum - Kisho Kurokawa
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• The Organic Movement is not merely a current in
  taste or an anti-stereometric and anti-prismatic
  vision of space, but is aimed at creating spaces
  which are not only beautiful in themselves, but
  represent the organic life of the people who live
  in them."
• Bruno Zevi

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Centro Congressi Italia, Eur, Roma - Massimiliano
Fuksas
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Centro Congressi Italia, Eur, Roma - Massimiliano
Fuksas
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Centro Culturale, Torino Mario Bellini
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• take time to break the static
• snapcase

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Embryo House - Greg Lynn
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Greg Lynn
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Celestino Soddu
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Celestino Soddu
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Triple Bridge Gateway to 9th Avenue, NY - Greg
Lynn
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Triple Bridge Gateway to 9th Avenue, NY - Greg
Lynn
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Triple Bridge Gateway to 9th Avenue, NY - Greg
Lynn
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Triple Bridge Gateway to 9th Avenue, NY - Greg
Lynn
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Triple Bridge Gateway to 9th Avenue, NY - Greg
Lynn
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Triple Bridge Gateway to 9th Avenue, NY - Greg
Lynn
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Odawara Municipal Sports Complex - Shoei Yoh
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Resi-Rise, New York Kolatan/MacDonald Studio
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Königs Architekten
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New Palace Hotel and boulevard, Noordwijk,
Netherlands - Oosterhuis Associates
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New Palace Hotel and boulevard, Noordwijk,
Netherlands - Oosterhuis Associates
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New Palace Hotel and boulevard, Noordwijk,
Netherlands - Oosterhuis Associates
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Shadow Machine - Santiago Calatrava
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Planetarium, Valencia, Spain - Santiago Calatrava
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Trans_Ports 2001, Rotterdam, Netherlands -
Oosterhuis Associates
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Paracube - Marcos Novak
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Marcos Novak
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Marcos Novak
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Marcos Novak
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Virtual Guggenheim Museum, Asymptote
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The development of so-called intelligent
buildings is a natural consequence and todays
society will demand that whole districts and
cities themselves become intelligent in the
same way as the individual buildings. Kenzo
Tange
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Mirage City Arata Isozaki
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Induction Cities Makoto Sei Watanabe
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Induction Cities Makoto Sei Watanabe
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Attractor Game, Parkstad Reitdiep, Groningen,
Netherlands ReiserUmemoto
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organic

• organic form and scale
• process gt product
• relation with environment, between self and
  others
• twilight zone, intermediary space
• all is alive
• emergence
• evolution, growth
• chaos and order
• balance

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organic worldview

• overthrows dichotomies
• East-West
• form follows function
• vs
• form follows friction

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not just one way traffic

• architecture through technology
• vs
• technology through architecture