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Computational Tendencies

Alessandro Bava

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Drawing from Mosej Ginzburg, Rhythm in Architecture, 1922.

Intelligence
January 2020










Notes
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Luigi Federico Menabrea, “Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq.,” trans. Ada Lovelace, Scientific Memoirs 3 (1843): n3.

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Andrew Goodhouse ed., When Is the Digital in Architecture? (Canadian Centre for Architecture and Sternberg Press, 2017).

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Patrick Schumaker, Autopoiesis of Architecture, Volume I (Wiley, 2011).

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Bernard Cache, Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories, trans. Anne Boyman (MIT Press, 1995).

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Matteo Pasquinelli, “Machines that Morph Logic: Neural Networks and the Distorted Automation of Intelligence as Statistical Inference,” Glass Bead (2017), .

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “(Sensitive) Consciousness and Time: Against the Transhumanist Utopia,” e-flux Journal 98 (February 2019), .

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Matteo Pasquinelli, “On the origins of Marx’s general intellect,” Radical Philosophy 2.06 (Winter 2019), .

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As we might really be facing what James Bridle has dubbed a "new dark age" of lost knowledge.

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Mario Carpo, “The Digital: From Complexity To Simplicity—And Back,” SAJ 6 (2014), .

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Bateson's statement that symmetry is one of the defining qualities that identifies living organisms seems to be purposefully avoided. This data austerity was interpreted as a pejorative, and therefore architecture, if it was going to be of its time, should achieve increasing formal and spatial complexity. See Greg Lynn, “The Renewed Novelty of Symmetry,” in Folds, Bodies & Blobs (La Lettre volée, 1998), .

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See Mario Carpo, Metodo Ed Ordini Nella Teoria Architettonica Dei Primi Moderni: Alberti, Raffaello. Serlio E Camillo (Librairie Droz, 1993).

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Aldo Rossi, “L’architettura della ragione come architettura di tendenza,” 1966, in Scritti scelti sull'architettura e la città 1956-1972, ed. Rosaldo Bonicalzi (Milan: Clup, 1975). English version in: Aldo Rossi, Architect (Milan: Electa, 1987).

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Aldo Rossi, Introduzione a Boullee. In Etienne Louis Boullee, Architettura, Saggio sull Arte (Marsilio, 1967).

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With the establishment of the “Doxiadis Associates Computer Center” (DACC) in 1964, Doxiadis became even more competent supporting its consulting services with computer analysis. The DACC in fact, was the first Information Technology company in Greece and among the first five electronic systems in Europe to use the pioneering Univac 1107 system, also known as the Thin Film Computer.