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William W. Braham

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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 …


What's Hecuba To Him? On Kiesler And The Knot, William Braham Dec 1997

What's Hecuba To Him? On Kiesler And The Knot, William Braham

William W. Braham

During the 1920s and 1930s , Frederick Kiesler belonged to De Stijl, the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen, Buckminster Fuller's Structural Studies Associates, and the theater faculty al Julliard; he also formed the Laboratory of Correalism at Columbia University, and through his association with Marcel Duchamp and the exiled Parisian art community, became the "official architect of the surrealists.” This article explores Kiesler’s intellectual history and his principle of Correalism.