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William W. Braham

2002

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Emergence-Cy! Notes On The Flow Of Information In Architecture, William Braham Jan 2002

Emergence-Cy! Notes On The Flow Of Information In Architecture, William Braham

William W. Braham

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Do Houses Evolve? Neo-Biology At House_N, William Braham Dec 2001

Do Houses Evolve? Neo-Biology At House_N, William Braham

William W. Braham

This paper inquires about neo-biology in architecture by examining House_n, a compelling house-of-the-future project that emerged from a design workshop at MIT conducted by Kent Larson and Chris Luebkeman at MIT in 1998. House_n has since expanded from a relatively direct “home of the future” to a “research consortium” called Changing Places that “explores how new technologies, materials, and strategies for design can make possible dynamic, evolving places that respond to the complexities of life.”3 It is a remarkably successful project whose organizing concepts and keywords—changing, dynamic, evolving, and complexity—have made it broadly appealing to manufacturers, designers, researchers, and corporate …