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"City Boids – Molecular Urbanism" by SMAQ
Description: The project “City Boids – Molecular Urbanism” by SMAQ asks for the logics of the production of urban space to be derived not from mastering plans but rather to be generated from small elements of a so-called “molecular urbanism” - e.g. highway and street vendors, and developmental settlers. The project was developed within the framework of the interdisciplinary research project "CaracasCase - the informal culture of the city" - it included writers, photographers, engineers, artists (Marjetica Potrc, Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber) and architects/urbanists (SMAQ) and was initiated by the Caracas Urban Think Tank and the Federal Cultural Foundation of Germany. The project was shown in the CaracasCase exhibition in the Sala Mendoza in Caracas. Recently, SMAQ has presented the project in lectures at the Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany and the ARTIMAGE - Media and Architecture Biennial in Graz, Austria.
http://www.ccstt.org/ccscs/ccscs/projects/muller/index.html
Digital Craftsmanship
Description: This site contains a number of research projects investigating the use of the digital in architecture. It covers PhD, MArch projects and a series if projects as experiments of the use of mathematics and scientific concepts in the design of architecture. The goal of digital craftsmanship is to better understand digital representations and how they might best demonstrate architectural concepts.
http://www.iit.edu/~krawczyk
Optimal Environments, Inc.
Description: Research and planning that combines the expertise of an architect trained in France and a prominent environmental psychologist.
http://www.optimalenvironments.com/
Highway…ing - Elastic Infrastructural Stranding
Description: Highway...ing reprograms a high-speed road cutting through a larger system of leisure landscapes around Castle Solitude near Stuttgart, Germany with housing, pedestrian bridges, parking and sports facilities. As a research project it explores a sequence of car-related movements as a base for an integral environmental design. It utilizes the capacities to work with dependencies and motion within computer-aided delineation. Highway...ing introduces elastic design practices into a profession related to static form and geometry. While conceptualising processes and orders of events rather than objects, matter becomes mouldable. This allows for the negotiation of supposedly irreconcilable demands: The given oppositions of different speeds, diameters and scales of driving versus pedestrian measurements are intertwined to achieve a greater programmatic and sensual density. An animation identifies the highway as an elastic, changeable strand of potential activities: A sequence of driving, exiting, slowing down, stopping, entering home and going outside into the open landscape is recorded, its tracings transform the road and become the core of a settlement that combines the advantages of smooth vehicle accessibility with the protective turns of living shielding off the impact of the traffic flow.
http://www.smaq.net/highwaying.html
The Architectural History Practice
Description: Dr James Anderson and Frank Kensall offer professional research on historic buildings in the UK. They provide a brief guide and bibliography to researching your own house.
http://www.architecturalhistory.co.uk/
Surrey House Detective
Description: Gillian Blok is a professional researcher of house history.
http://www.surreyhousedetective.co.uk/
The Online House Detective
Description: Nick Barratt explains how to trace the history of your house or any other building, and offers professional research help throughout the UK for those who need it.
http://www.house-detectives.co.uk
The Historical Research Agency
Description: Offers family and building history research services. Based in south-west England but covers most UK libraries and record offices.
http://www.historicalresearch.biz
Period Profile
Description: Based in Northumbria, offers to undertake a search of local records to uncover the history of your house. Services, estimated costs.
http://members.aol.com/r1953young/home.htm
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