Play Among Books
A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelled in Atom Letters
Architecture and Information, abundance and connectivity, unsettling hierarchies. Clouds, streams, lists, indexes, pixels. What are they about and how do they shape the way we think …
AN OPEN INVARIANT
poems from the plenty
generic poem 024
Writing on architecture is not like history or poetry.1 For this book does not show of what architecture is composed, but treats of the origin of the building art, how …
XENOTHEKA
xenotheka.caad.arch.ethz.ch
poems from the plenty
generic poem 067
A New Don Quixote
The builders of the library were great masters.1
One day he rose from his arm chair, and went to his library in search of a …
Texting Architects
TEXTING ARCHITECTS
How do we learn in the digital? How do we deal with the abundance of data? How do we experience spectrums and not be seduced by explicit singular definitions? Does playing with information help?
Lets take architectural discourse …
Table Stories
As a part of the Quantum Words Series first in a series of architectonic objects: THE TABLE
Table Stories
When one contemplates a table, two thoughts often emerge–What is on the table? (how is the table set), and …
A Play of Books
Computational Object in a World of Data
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PROLOGUE
DRAMA
From Singapore With Love
written by Petra Tomljanovic, Miro Roman
published in Oris magazine/95
pdf available here
“Interviewer: The greatest invention of this century must be…?
Lee Kuan Yew: The air-conditioner, for me.” (Kuan Yew 2008)
In Singapore, everything simply works. The air …
A QUANTUM CITY
… A Quantum City or How to Talk about Cities?
review by Petra Tomljanovic
City. Divided tensions, expectations; new images, mastery of orientation skills, the jitters, the fear of the unknown. A new city, your city, for a couple of hours, couple of days, infinite, unfathomable, foreign, extensive, dirty, creative, …
Globally Independent
Self-sustainability, Sanctions, Islam, Iran
May 30, 2013 – June 5, 2013. Iran, Tehran
Iran most definitely is not what the Western media show us. No big surprise. What is astonishing, however, is the easiness with which distorted media images generate …