12/31/07
12/10/07
PF, Clarke's "MAKING A DIFFERENCE", 10-12-2007
i am examining today Pedro Clarke' thesis. Pedro did his internership with John Lyall in London and he worked for "Architects for Aid". See:
Prova final para Licenciatura em Arquitectura
Pedro Clarke, "MAKING A DIFFERENCE: The LCCU case study", FAUP, 22-10-2007.
Juri: Prof. Rui Afonso (presidente juti), Arq Luis urbano (orientador) e Prof Arq Gonçalo Furtado (arguente).
Prova final para Licenciatura em Arquitectura
Pedro Clarke, "MAKING A DIFFERENCE: The LCCU case study", FAUP, 22-10-2007.
Juri: Prof. Rui Afonso (presidente juti), Arq Luis urbano (orientador) e Prof Arq Gonçalo Furtado (arguente).
12/7/07
Preface by Neil
"A Tale of Enabling
I must, right at the start confess a vested interest in the subject of this book and its author. Gonçalo Furtado was a PhD student of mine ... [a]s the years progressed my respect for Gonçalo increased as I observed his tenacity as a architectural researcher, his powerful ambition, his keen fact gathering and his sheer work ethic. This book is a testament to that work ethic. Gonçalo and I have a great love for Cedric Price, the man and his work... So, reader while you are reading Gonçalo’s book think also of Price, the man – a man too clever to ever fully affiliate himself to any university or school of architecture, but a great supporter of the art of architecture and where it lead might us."
Professor Neil Spiller is Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory and Vice Dean at the Bartlett, University College London.
[Neil Spiller, "A Tale of Enabling", in: Gonçalo M. Furtado C. Lopes, Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer, pp. preface].
I must, right at the start confess a vested interest in the subject of this book and its author. Gonçalo Furtado was a PhD student of mine ... [a]s the years progressed my respect for Gonçalo increased as I observed his tenacity as a architectural researcher, his powerful ambition, his keen fact gathering and his sheer work ethic. This book is a testament to that work ethic. Gonçalo and I have a great love for Cedric Price, the man and his work... So, reader while you are reading Gonçalo’s book think also of Price, the man – a man too clever to ever fully affiliate himself to any university or school of architecture, but a great supporter of the art of architecture and where it lead might us."
Professor Neil Spiller is Professor of Architecture and Digital Theory and Vice Dean at the Bartlett, University College London.
[Neil Spiller, "A Tale of Enabling", in: Gonçalo M. Furtado C. Lopes, Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer, pp. preface].
12/6/07
Books
>Gonçalo M. Furtado C. Lopes
>“Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer”
>Coimbra: Universidade Vasco da Gama (Semear Palavras), 2007 (forthcoming)
>Contents:
>-0.
>-0.1. – Preface by Neil Spiller
>1.1 - Introduction: Encounters around Architecture and Systems
1.2. – Cedric Price: The maverick of British Architecture
1.3 - Experiments on impermanence
>2.
>2.1. - The Generator: A Responsive and Intelligent Architecture
>2.2. - Requiring Frazer’s Systems Research
>2.3. - Computational Proposals and Programs
> 2.4. - The Frazers’ Research and Techniques
2.5 - Generator Computer Programs, Models and Perspectives
>2.6. - Generator’s Acknowledgement as the First Intelligent Building
>2.7. - Further Research and Occurrences Concerning the Generator
>3.
>3.1. - Last Attempts: The Generator revisited
>3.2. - Beyond the Generator Experience
See also:
Gonçalo M. Furtado C. L., "Envisioning an Evolving Environment: The Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer", Oporto: Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, (Forthcoming)
>“Generator and Beyond: Encounters of Cedric Price and John Frazer”
>Coimbra: Universidade Vasco da Gama (Semear Palavras), 2007 (forthcoming)
>Contents:
>-0.
>-0.1. – Preface by Neil Spiller
>1.1 - Introduction: Encounters around Architecture and Systems
1.2. – Cedric Price: The maverick of British Architecture
1.3 - Experiments on impermanence
>2.
>2.1. - The Generator: A Responsive and Intelligent Architecture
>2.2. - Requiring Frazer’s Systems Research
>2.3. - Computational Proposals and Programs
> 2.4. - The Frazers’ Research and Techniques
2.5 - Generator Computer Programs, Models and Perspectives
>2.6. - Generator’s Acknowledgement as the First Intelligent Building
>2.7. - Further Research and Occurrences Concerning the Generator
>3.
>3.1. - Last Attempts: The Generator revisited
>3.2. - Beyond the Generator Experience
See also:
Gonçalo M. Furtado C. L., "Envisioning an Evolving Environment: The Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer", Oporto: Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, (Forthcoming)
Abstract
Abstract
Envisioning an Evolving Environment - The Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer
Gonçalo Miguel Furtado Cardoso Lopes. Supervised by Neil Spiller and Iain Borden
Bartlett School of Architecture - U.C.L. Faculty of the Built Environment
Abstract
This thesis provides a history of exchanges between architecture and the fields of cybernetics, systems research and computation, throughout the period of the last half century. In particular, it focuses on the encounters of the British professionals - Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer - and provides a complete account of two outstanding architectural projects related to systems and computation - Generator and Japan Net. It also highlights the architectural relevance of these encounters and the importance of their contemporary legacy - the genesis of the systemic and computational paradigm in architectural design and the promotion of an evolving environment. The thesis is based mainly on research of Gordon Pask’s personal archive (held by Ms. Amanda Heitler) and Cedric Price Archives (held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture).
The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part relates to early developments involving cybernetics and architecture. It includes Pask’s career and the rise of a second-order-cybernetics, as well as Price’s breakthrough posture and tireless promotion of an impermanent architecture opened to user participation. The second part provides a complete account of Price’s Generator. It focuses on the project’s diverse phases and consultancies, and highlights John and Julia Frazer’s contribution as systems consultants, which led this project to be acknowledged as the first intelligent building. The third part focuses on the rise of the information environment and the later reencounters between and achievements of Pask, Price and Frazer. It includes revisits to the Generator project, a complete account of the Japan Net competition entry, as well as pointing out outstanding ideas on evolving installations and essays of both Frazer and Pask.
It becomes clear that the current architectural agenda, focused on the new techno-cultural order of the information society and an aesthetics of emergence can benefit from these seminal exchanges, encounters and projects.
Envisioning an Evolving Environment - The Encounters of Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer
Gonçalo Miguel Furtado Cardoso Lopes. Supervised by Neil Spiller and Iain Borden
Bartlett School of Architecture - U.C.L. Faculty of the Built Environment
Abstract
This thesis provides a history of exchanges between architecture and the fields of cybernetics, systems research and computation, throughout the period of the last half century. In particular, it focuses on the encounters of the British professionals - Gordon Pask, Cedric Price and John Frazer - and provides a complete account of two outstanding architectural projects related to systems and computation - Generator and Japan Net. It also highlights the architectural relevance of these encounters and the importance of their contemporary legacy - the genesis of the systemic and computational paradigm in architectural design and the promotion of an evolving environment. The thesis is based mainly on research of Gordon Pask’s personal archive (held by Ms. Amanda Heitler) and Cedric Price Archives (held at the Canadian Centre for Architecture).
The thesis is divided into three parts. The first part relates to early developments involving cybernetics and architecture. It includes Pask’s career and the rise of a second-order-cybernetics, as well as Price’s breakthrough posture and tireless promotion of an impermanent architecture opened to user participation. The second part provides a complete account of Price’s Generator. It focuses on the project’s diverse phases and consultancies, and highlights John and Julia Frazer’s contribution as systems consultants, which led this project to be acknowledged as the first intelligent building. The third part focuses on the rise of the information environment and the later reencounters between and achievements of Pask, Price and Frazer. It includes revisits to the Generator project, a complete account of the Japan Net competition entry, as well as pointing out outstanding ideas on evolving installations and essays of both Frazer and Pask.
It becomes clear that the current architectural agenda, focused on the new techno-cultural order of the information society and an aesthetics of emergence can benefit from these seminal exchanges, encounters and projects.
Visiting architecture, Barcelona 30 11 2007
Visiting architecture.
F.G., R.M., MRDV and Herzog & Meuron.
Jurgen have you something to do with this H&M building?
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