Envisioning an Evolving Environment

Envisioning an Evolving Environment - The Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer
Gonçalo Miguel Furtado Cardoso Lopes
PhD Dissertation supervised by Neil Spiller and Iain Borden
Bartlett School of Architecture - U.C.L. Faculty of the Built Environment - 2007.


Contents

PART 0 - Introduction
0.1 - The encounters around architecture and systems research (p.6)

PART 1 - First steps - Pask and Price’s pioneering experiences
1.1 - Systems, adaptative machines and self-organization (p.42)
1.2 - Early exchanges with art forms (p.61)
1.3 - The 1960s’ breakthrough attitude and Cedric Price’ experiments on impermanence (p.66)
1.4 - Architectural Association and the Colloquium of mobiles (p.94)
1.5 - Architectural machine intelligence and second-order-cybernetics (p.113)

PART 2 - The first intelligent building - Price’s Generator and the Frazers’ research
2.1 - The rise of Generator and its initial design studies (p.145)
2.2 - Consultancies and further design definition (p.178)
2.3 - Envisioning the building and the announcement of its suspension (p.220)
2.4 - Frazer’s systems research (p.243)

PART 3 - The Information Environment - The reencounters of Pask, Price and Frazer
3.1 - A new techno-cultural order (p.276)
3.2 - Architectural computing (p.284)
3.3 - The Japan Net experience (p.292)
3.4 - The Generator revisited (p.314)
3.5 - Towards an evolving aesthetics (p.329)

PART 4 - Conclusion
4.1 - Conclusion - The envisioning of an evolving environment (p.366)
4.2 - Archival and bibliographical sources (p.381-426)