Friday, May 22, 2009

Recommended Readings #1

"THE TIMELESS WAY OF BUILDING"
by Christopher Alexander [1979] 10/10
keywords: patterns in architecture supported by events as the generative process of spatial quality,

"A THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE"
by Nikos A. Salingaros [2007] 9/10
keywords: spatial performance, design science, diagnosis, hyphothesis, mathematics, urbanism

"CRITICAL ARCHITECTURE"
edited by Jane Rendell, Jonathan Hill, Murray Fraser and Mark Dorrian [2007] 7/10
keywords: literary criticism, design criticism

"ANTI-ARCHITECTURE AND DECONSTRUCTION"
by Nikos A. Salingaros [2008] 10/10
keywords: literary criticism, criticism of architecture not only influenced by Deconstruction but of 20th-century Modernism

"THE ARCHITECTURE OF DECONSTRUCTION: DERRIDA'S HAUNT"
by Mark Wigley [1993] 9/10
keywords: translation, language

"THE ESSENTIAL FRANK LLYOD WRIGHT: CRITICAL WRITINGS ON ARCHITETURE"
by Frank Llyod and Bruce Brooks Pfeiffer [2008] 8/10
keywords: manifestos

"S,M,L,XL"
by Remkoolhaas, Bruce Mau, and Hans Werlemann [1997] 10/10
keywords: essays, manifestos, diaries, travelogues, politics, context, economy, globaization

"ARCHITECTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE: DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING"
by Branko Kolarevic [2003] 10/10
keywords: technology, fabrication, BIM, materiality, integrated design, new materials, project delivery system

"PRINCIPLES OF URBAN STRUCTURE - DESIGN, SCIENCE, PLANNING"
by Nikos A. Saingaros [2005] 10/10
reviving human-city through means of technology (science and mathematics, how cities operates + grow


"Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences"
by Jacques Derrida
study notes: here
keywords: deconstruction, linguistics, read between the lines...hoahoaoho

Monday, May 18, 2009

3dsMAX Crowding exercise_

3DSMAX_crowd_simulation.gif (192kb)

This is actually an unsuccessfult attempt for me to generate form with the 3dsMAX 'crowd' dynamics. However, this is what I've learned:
1. The crowds are generated from delegates, behaviour is too limited to determine or predict any social behaviour. However, these behaviours can be tweaked via scripting, MAXscript. This may take weeks to months. So, I'm letting it go...

2. With the basic behaviours such as 'seek', 'wander', 'target', 'gravitation', 'repel' should be good enough for simple animation, but not so much as for "simulation".

The GIF file may not work properly due to Google Docs